Making a 0 A.D. Mod's Website

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

What do you guys think is the best platform on which to build a mod's website? This is for a guy (me) with little website coding knowledge. I used to be big into making websites 20+ years ago, but none of those skills have been expanded since then (style sheets were the height of innovation, lol). So, maybe Squarespace? Wix? Anyone with any experience with hosts such as these?

I'm looking to build a website for Delenda Est. A few years ago I started one on fandom.com, but deleted it after experiencing severe frustration with the platform's ads and limitations. So, something like Wix or Squarespace where I pay a small fee per month is fine. Even free is fine as long as they don't plaster ads everywhere. 

[Perzival12]

I’d say buy a domain and make an actual website, rather than paying for hosting one. DelendaEst.org or something like that probably isn’t taken.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

4 minutes ago, Perzival12 said:

rather than paying for hosting one

I mean, I'd be paying to host the site regardless?

[Asher]

On 12/05/2026 at 5:33 AM, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

What do you guys think is the best platform on which to build a mod's website? This is for a guy (me) with little website coding knowledge. I used to be big into making websites 20+ years ago, but none of those skills have been expanded since then (style sheets were the height of innovation, lol). So, maybe Squarespace? Wix? Anyone with any experience with hosts such as these?

I'm looking to build a website for Delenda Est. A few years ago I started one on fandom.com, but deleted it after experiencing severe frustration with the platform's ads and limitations. So, something like Wix or Squarespace where I pay a small fee per month is fine. Even free is fine as long as they don't plaster ads everywhere. 

I hosted a site for classical warfare aea on github pages, and that is free: https://jeff-web-sketch.github.io/ClassicalWarfareAEASite/index.html

[leopard]

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Edited 6 hours ago by leopard

[leopard]

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[andy5995]

@wowgetoffyourcellphoneSince you're already using GitHub, you might prefer GitHub Pages. A lot of projects on GitHub use it to automatically publish sites. One example is a project of mine called Dealer's Choice. There's a workflow that triggers when I make doc changes, they're pushed to https://github.com/Dealer-s-Choice/dealer-s-choice.github.io and published to the actual site at https://dealer-s-choice.github.io/  (free github hosting).

I haven't done any CSS styling on that site yet, but that can be done too: https://theimpossibleastronaut.com/rmw-website/ is published from https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/rmw-website

You could even have a simpler workflow where you put the html or md files in the /docs directory of your Delenda EST repo, and anytime they change, they are published to https://justusavramenko.github.io/delenda_est (I think you'd first have to make a justusavramenko.github.io repo and publish something there). All Github repos have a "Pages" setting, where you can set some options for publishing.

If you were thinking of registering a domain and getting hosting, I've had good experiences with DreamHost. 

You can also register a domain, and in the pages settings of your repo, you can set your domain so your site will publish to GitHub pages (for the hosting), but  have your yourdomain.com as the address. It uses a CNAME alias or something, I don't remember... so not a 301 redirect, iirc.

Edited 1 hour ago by andy5995

[andy5995]

6 minutes ago, andy5995 said:

You could even have a simpler workflow where you put the html or md files in the /docs directory of your Delenda EST repo

It's worth highlighting that docs can be published from different branches of a repo. A branch named 'gh-pages' used to be required (it may still be, I don't know). So for example, you create an orphan branch on your Delenda EST repo called 'gh-pages', you put your files and CSS and other assets your website uses on that branch. That's one of the settings under "Pages" on your repo setting. You'd have to create the branch first for the option to show up. That would keep your mod structure clean on your main branch.

To keep that branch checked out all the time, you can use `git worktree ...` to create a directory separate from the directory from where the files on your main branch are located.

Edited 1 hour ago by andy5995