Are all these projects targeting this particular buche within HN? Soon as they see this design, people are gonna bounce.
Tiny websites are great
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#102I love the original thinking in this post. If there was no React/Angular/VueJS, how would YOU design ANY system to help you code faster and more maintainable? That what I'd love to see: more original ideas to solve complex tasks, and not stopping at the first idea coming to mind.
BTW: I believe tailwindcss is fantastic at achieving and helping with the OP's frustration.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find myself torn on the specific instructions. It's certainly a lot more arcane than my early sites, but that was mostly because there was a whole lot of boilerplate handled by the host (Enter these details into your FTP program, put your files into public_html, start with index.html). I didn't have any idea what Apache was, how files were served, or really anything about internet infrastructure. And that's fine, c…
I don't know, I mostly agree with you, but I disagree that a simple site requires that much. Just drop the files in a folder in some web server and you're done.
Authoritative voice, the creator of Imgz.org (huge fan).
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#104Most of the "small" designs and frameworks I've seen are quite large, in my mind. I just finished building a minimalist html/css template for some of my own projects. I'm starting to feel like this is some lost art form. https://neat.joeldare.com
Why you don't center your body? We need to turn our head to read.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> analytics is important A lot of times they're not. If you don't have a product, and you're not trying to sell anything, consider the possibility that you just don't need it.
Even for small personal projects, analytics can give you a lot of insights into what your viewers like. Things like session duration and bounce rate, broken down by page, can tell what content people enjoy and what contents needs some work. Also useful to know what fraction of your users are recurring versus new users to tell whether people actually return to your site or if they just check it out once. Lastly, the r…
Odd idea: ask them.
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#106I love this initiative in principle, but the instructions left a rather sour taste in my mouth. Create a Firebase app, download and install Node and run some arcane cli commands? For what? To upload a 10-byte HTML file somewhere? Please, do yourself and us a favour and sign up for a free account on https://neocities.org , and make a quirky website by hand for all of us to enjoy. I half want to write a post like this…
Neocities was refreshing. I really miss simple fan websites like https://distantskies.neocities.org/
Re: Tiny websites are great
#107I love this initiative in principle, but the instructions left a rather sour taste in my mouth. Create a Firebase app, download and install Node and run some arcane cli commands? For what? To upload a 10-byte HTML file somewhere? Please, do yourself and us a favour and sign up for a free account on https://neocities.org , and make a quirky website by hand for all of us to enjoy. I half want to write a post like this…
oh, wow, just read that complicated cli/firebase stuff.
yeah, even easier (or maybe more minimalistic) would be:
goto 192.168.0.1 (or .1.1) and figure out how to port forward '80' to your machine.
install apache
goto a dynamic dns service, get some sub-subdomain, and setup a curl script to set it to your IP.
put an html file in your apache server.
voila, you have your own website*
*if your ISP allows traffic on port 80
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are they bad for SEO? The author seemed to be talking more about CSS and JS rather than content - does not using bootstrap or ReactJS mark you down on search results?
IMHO, SEO is just shorthand for SnakEOil. If gaming search engines is your Brad-and-butter, is your idea really that novel?
It's not about gaming them anymore.
It's about structuring pages and content in such a way that Google et al believe works best for the reader.
Due to Google-side analytics, it's also about bounce-rates. This leads to both more in lengthy pages with depth, as well as lengthy pages of bullshit.
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#109>No libraries or frameworks (the exception being analytics) No, analytics are not an exception. Don't put fucking spyware on your pages. I can't believe it's 2020 and people still need to be told this. It's not okay.
Nowadays you can have your cake and eat it too. There are privacy-respecting free alternatives to GA.
Name your favorite?
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#110"Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue" How do you visit this site?
Synchronize your system clock and attempt again.