Hello I am looking to make quite the generic web site.. As in it's only purpose will be to have a new quote each day (that i put in) with the ability to go back and see other quotes but clearly nothing that has yet to be added.
Simple black background with the letters. No links, no contacts, no anything. Just that.

Wondering where to start.
Current Slack and a static IP w/ domain is where I am currently at.

Your question is so general that I don't quite know how to respond to it.

For something as simple as you describe, basic HTML would likely be sufficient; you would need to edit it every day to add the new quote, but that's really no big deal once you get the hang of the syntax. However, from my own experience, I would suspect that soon you would want to do more.

You might start with a web search for basic website design. A little bit of research might help you form more specific questions.

I don't quite understand this statement. Do you mean you have already registered a domain name and set up DNS to point to your webserver's ip address?

If you are thinking of self-hosting, you should be advised that most ISPs, at least in the U. S., forbid public-facing servers unless you have a business-level account. The primary reason for this to combat spam and spammers.

Hello

You did answer the majority of my question. I did do a google search but was not sure of any specifics with Slackware as far as hosting the server myself. I am registered as a "small business" due to my purchase of a block of static IP's so that should not be an issue and yes, I have a domain with reverse/forward dns all set up as far as that goes. The figuring out HTML and so on so forth I assume is general on any system just didnt know how to implement it on Slack and "run" it.

Try bashblog.

Static site or no, make sure you have appropriate protections in place: firewall, backups, etc.

Thank you for the link and the advice...

I will indeed up security via firewall as well as utilizing best I can the security of my Cisco ASA-5508.

I’ll definitely do my research on security on the Slackware level.

its kind of horses for courses. you can have a web site with just html pages, which tend to be called static pages.

Say you want people to get back to you, how are you going to do that?

if you quote (your email ) say JohnDoe@aol.com then bots, spammers etc will soon pick it up and you will find it hard to see genuine emails from all the spam which increases day after day . Of course you can do something like JohnDoe "at sign", period com then find that spammers are more savy than the public so yo end up with more spammers than genuine. Then you have to consider if people can be bothered to log into their emails have one, or can remember their login creds

Then you you arrive at php and use of PHPMailer and use of a form; here users (of extreme laziness) don't have to log in anywhere, just enter a couple of lines of text and then as the French say Voila , the info entered in the form arrives at your email maybe with a sneaky knowledge of their I.P address which you might find useful if you only want to deal with people from a certain geographic.