Friday June 5 (5-8pm)
Saturday June 6 (1-4pm)
Sunday June 7 (1-4pm)
In collaboration with La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse
*The workshop is full but you can add your name to the waiting list*

How to Write a Website introduces participants to take a look ‘under the interface’ with a view to offering an approachable, playful, and poetic introduction to static website making. Inspired by projects such as HTML Energy and Sunday Sites, HTWW links the declarative programming languages HTML and CSS to everyday creative practices like writing, gardening, talking to friends, and decorating your personal space. In contrast to social media platforms, where user self-expression is funneled through a rigid interface and harvested for profit by ethically disinterested companies, hand-written and self-published websites are micro-gestures that ‘rewild’ the internet. We will ask how a website can be an artwork, a poem, a bulletin board, a stack of stones, a message in a bottle. Together, we will learn foundational and fascinating digital literacy skills, and let a thousand websites bloom.

Across multiple sessions, workshop participants will learn the syntax of HTML and CSS, how to structure and design websites, and how to navigate web hosting and custom domains. Participants will work on personal website projects, from concept, to design, to live url. Each workshop session will involve a lecture with theory and practical demos, followed by time to work on websites with the support of the facilitator.