This is terrible

The main thing i dont like about wordress is that it doesnt give me access to the html and wont allow me to easily resize things.
Then again i might be a n00b.

I wanted to have a dev blog for gamedev, and wanted to use HTML5 + CSS. Namely, since you can't really break into a site's admin account if there is no account in the first place. That and it's very lightweight in comparison to an overdose of features I'll never really use. Don't care much for comments and feedback as I have other outlets for that.
My only problem is that while I'd gotten some basic pages together, I hadn't quite gotten anything appealing and I would occasionally flub up the text wrapping or other such details for different devices. Anyone got some good resources on doing hand crafted blog posts in this kind of workflow? I don't really need much beyond that. I couldn't find many good sources once I got past baby level of coding.

Haha, I had to use that once, what a shitty bloated spaghetti generator. It's almost as bad as MS FrontPage was, if you're old enough and unlucky enough to have used that.

I will probably just make one page with it as a shameless bait for google search.

go be a dumb nigger somwhere else

Honestly, just do the black on white thing the other dude mentioned. Will make your project look 100% more interesting. Too much design on websites just makes me suspicious at this point and think that the people making the site are probably full of shit. Especially true for indie gamdev which is like 99,95% bullshit anyways.

I remember the tables and shudder a bit

I'm definitely going that direction, yeah. I don't want to underdo it, but that's still better than overdoing it and looking gaudy or clustered full of images.

People still pay for WordPress sites, that is the reason it is still around. Wp is just within the skill level of an average office worker, so they can make content edits without paying a developer. If you are coding a personal project, yeah, don't waste time on WP.

Best way for me learning HTML stuff, and a lot of other stuff for that matter, is to do what I can and look up how to do X or how to fix Y whenever I run into something. Then I learn that and incrementally increase my expertise. I suppose once you get to a certain level of proficiency this way you'd be set to get a couple books on the matter and read them and actually get something out of them, even if you only just pick and choose bits to use. Honestly you're probably better than me at this since I just have a little neocities page, but fpr me the most helpful thing is just being really organized. Nowadays I try to put most things into divs and then put divs into larger divs. Maybe a bit convoluted sounding, but it lets you split a page up into blocks and then split blocks up how you like. So I can make good use of the space and change the properties of anu class of divs with a quick CSS change. And little things like being very consistent in design, and having breadcrumbs on every page and maybe even a directory sort of page help keep things very organized. IMO the bane of a small site is being disorganized. When its organized you have a good workspace, just like a desk or office in which you can do good work.