What We Made On HTML Day 2026
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A typography tasting menu, poems written in HTML, silk-printed t-shirts, and a collage that turned into birds.
HTML Day fell on Saturday, and I hosted two online sessions for it: one at 6pm CET, one at 6pm AEST. 60 mins, everyone muted, introductions in the chat, writing HTML in company, then showing what we'd made.
I said I'd take notes and pass on the link. Here they are: who turned up, what people meant to make, what we talked about, and what got made.
Table Of Contents
The CET Session
Who Came
What People Planned To Make
- A homepage for a new library site.
- A page of one's houseplants (seconded.)
- A page about the houseplants one had previously.
- A twine about the frustrations of captchas.
- A collection of 'strong opinions, loosely held.'
- A page about the oldest settlement in one's home region.
- A collage of elements that anyone could contribute to.
- A podroll: a page of one's favorite podcasts.
- Dusting off one's HTML skills, no particular destination.
What We Made
- A 'tasting menu' for testing typography: page and repository.
- A collage of elements, which was mostly bird-themed.
- A search page for a library: with an under construction gif added.
- A page of affirmations and reminders for one's self.
The AEST Session
Who Came
What People Planned To Make
- A links hub for one's website.
- An alternative blog post template.
- An 'elsewhere' page.
- A page of one's poetry.
- A poem formatted in HTML.
- Something written with a poetic air.
- A blank HTML page.
- A freewrite, if inspiration struck.
What We Talked About
- What a 'links' or 'resources' page can look like.
- The joys of writing HTML, especially returning to it after a while.
- The difficulties of adding links in HTML, and the rewards: how it makes a piece more interesting, and more connected to everyone on the net.
- Which HTML tags are best for formatting poetry.
- A 'slashpage' to document the attempts and evolutions in one's note-taking system. Would it live at '/pkm' or '/notetaking'?
Links Shared
What We Made
- A pink-themed page, by April: aprilscable.neocities.org/htmlday.
- Silk-printed handmade 'HTML-themed' t-shirts, showcased by Kitasenju: htmldaytokyo.neocities.org/2026/t-shirt.
- A poem, shared one line at a time: enocc.com/html-day.html.
- A poem about HTML, written in HTML, by James: playground.jamesg.blog/html-day-morning-2026.html
- Coming back to HTML, by Yime Yan: imgradeone.com/htmlday2026.
- By Naty: burgeonlab.com/html-day and burgeonlab.com/html-day-2026.
- By Chris: chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that.
What I Made
Hosting means I write less, but I got something down:
- A podroll.
- A page about the houseplants I used to have.
- A 'hills' page for the opinions I'm willing to die on.
- A museum slashpage for the communities and creative spaces I've passed through online.
- Made a few contribution to the bird collage.
None are ready. They'll turn up here eventually.
Thank You
To everyone who came: thank you. And to Naty for spotting errors!
Writing HTML is a fine way to spend an hour. Writing it in a quiet room full of other people doing the same is better, and I don't entirely know why.
Same time next year.
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