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It's a satirical tweet, but I find it interesting the tweet is 6 year old and reflects how little has changed in website design. I’m undecided if this a good or bad thing. For star…

I recently started designing t-shirts aimed at gamers. It's not art, more like graphic design. I uploaded the designs to a Print on Demand (POD) service. Sales so far are zero (whi…

Thank you everyone for your encouraging comments. As with any product, there's always the fear of "if I build, will they come?" But without building, I'll never know. So time to ge…

These are thousands of Web templates available for different products and frameworks e.g. WordPress, Ghost, Bootstrap, React, Vue, Hugo etc. Would you ever consider buying a websit…

If you support the latest browsers only, what modern features do you use? For example, do you use CSS Grid? Or variable width fonts? If you still need to support older browsers, wh…

The market for website templates seems to be completely saturated. Despite that, there are many Bootstrap, WordPress, and static site templates available to buy. So some people are…

It's 2019 and browser support for CSS Grid is strong (using the latest browser versions). Many supporters of CSS Grid suggest that CSS frameworks are no longer necessary for layout…

Are there any opportunities in designing (and selling) website themes that are fast-loading and accessible and written in plain html and css (not Wordpress, or a CSS framework)? In…

I hope it's OK to piggyback on this question and ask: are there any opportunities in designing (and selling) website themes, particulalrly non-Wordpress themes? Many replies here s…

For a small business that prefers someone else to handle the logistics of stock, shipping, payments and returns, are there any alternatives to FBA in the US or Europe? As far as I …

If you are using PHP 7.x for your side-project or main product, what has been your experience? - has speed of performance ever been an issue? - how easy have your found it to deplo…

I am creating a website template for a programming language. What features or characteristics do you expect to see in a programming language site? Are there sites you think make go…

Would you ever consider purchasing a website template you like even if that template was not using a framework? Is there a market for straight HTML/CSS themes (i.e. not Wordpress o…

Do you think there's a market still for straight HTML/CSS themes (i.e. not Wordpress or Bootstrap templates)? Or is the market so saturated that no-one would seriously consider pur…

You might not need a static site generator for a single page website. Why not simply author it directly in HTML and CSS? It might actually be faster (and simpler) to code by hand. …

> A blog is really fast if you don't put anything but text in it basically Here's a dummy test page I made a while ago to see if I could create a fairly lengthy, fast-loading text …

Thanks for trying out these test pages. Version B has two different font weights from the same family: Regular and Medium/Semi-bold. Version A relies on the fonts already installed…

Text articles are probably the most widespread type of content on the web. Most web sites are not web apps. But many developers want to re-construct web sites into web app architec…

Thanks for trying out these test pages! When I created them, I tried loading them in different locations on my phone. Surprisingly, even in busy city-centre locations (using 3G), t…

Do we really need Instant Articles (Facebook) and AMP (Google) when we can accomplish fast loading pages with plain, uncomplicated HTML and CSS? I feel that many web developers don…

Inspired by this recent discussion on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12448181) I'd like to ask if readers find the web page links below fast to load on their mob…

If you need to support older browsers without Flexbox, another option is to use a tiny (less than 1kb) CSS grid system called Pocket Grid. The grid system lets you position blocks …