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Secondarily, and required to make it a great site, would be speed (I should be able to start reading in at most 0.2 seconds from load in an ideal case) and internal links so that I can easily find more of the great content.
- Optimize your images. If you're gonna go down the tedious "hero image" road, DON'T make visitors download 10-meg background images. - Build it with simple HTML & CSS. JS should not be necessary.
> JS should not be necessary. This x1000. However, not using JS is also not necessary. There are valid reasons to use JS even in a simple personal site. The way I see it, keeping it as simple as possible is most important. Much of the time that means HTML & CSS only, maybe however, you want to have tabs at the top (for example). Is this possible to do with HTML & CSS? Yes. Is it simpler to do with JS. Also yes, and i…