I finally took a moment to clean up my personal website a bit and make it more concise and to the point, content-wise. I may be pretty good with HTML/CSS, but outside of my sysadmin duties, I've never really forayed into any sort of serious server-side scripting or functionality. But with the Internet sort of going to crap these days, I'm thinking more and more about adding the ability for folks to interact and leave messages to my site... but I have no idea where to even start.

I know there's a pretty healthy Neocities community here and that some of you put guestbooks on your page, which might be a sufficient starting point. Any decent recommendations from anyone there?

I'm still not sure if that's the route I'll take. I prefer to have as much of my stuff self-coded and maintained as possible, but with this being a side-project hobby sort of thing, it really doesn't sit high on my priority list... especially with a baby to take care of in the background :/ And I'm wary of opening myself up to security and bot/spamming vulnerabilities with the simple stuff, so ...IDK.

Anyways, if anyone has good recommendations they feel like sharing, drop them here. Otherwise, I might just need to school myself a bit and get back to this later.