JungleWriter 🌴🐒
Welcome to JungleWriter, a tool for creating wild, free-form websites. No coding experience required. Free and open-source.
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JungleWriter is an online tool for creating artistic, free-form websites. Use it to create a site for your next project or adventure. This small page was made with JungleWriter. Make a site for: - Your online card / links - Your band - Your next event - Your running group - Your goldfish - Your wedding
What is it?
With JungleWriter, you add widgets to an infinite canvas to design your site. No need to write any HTML or CSS. When you're done, you get a zip-file of your website. Upload this zip to any hosting provider (like Cloudflare) and, voila, you have a website! If you want a custom domain name, just ask your friendly AI how to set that up.
How does it work?
Here are more technical details, for anyone interested. JungleWriter is a static site generator, like Hugo or Gatsby, but with a few twists: 1. Other static site generators are mostly made for personal blogs or content-heavy product sites. JungleWriter is more for artistic / fun use-cases where you want to design your site on a canvas and don't care much about having a traditional-looking site. 2. JungleWriter sites are based on an "infinite canvas" model (like an art canvas, not a literal <canvas> element). Instead of using margin, padding, flexbox, grid, etc, all elements are absolute positioned. Each site has some javascript to allow the user to scroll freely around the page. 3. JungleWriter runs in the browser and all the editor files are stored in the browser's storage. You can import and export project files to backup and share them. Why make this? I made JungleWriter because I wish there were more fun, free tools to create websites. I have made a variety of websites for different projects. It's usually quite a chore. Hopefully now there is an option that feels less like work.