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Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by chrismorgan »

rchaud wrote: post #48
astroalex wrote: post #8

This is awesome. Almost all content on the internet has been centralized by social networks, so it brings me joy to see an appetite for small, personal, non-commercial websites.

Eh, I've been on the hunt for non-commercial websites for close to a decade. It's pretty barren out there. Three types of people have websites these days: 1) People trying to sell something: courses, books, their resume, etc. 2) People interested in blogging, who give up after less than a year due to lack of visibility (compared to Medium/Substack) 3) People who created their website in the 90s and saw no reason to s…

> 2) People interested in blogging, who give up after less than a year due to lack of visibility (compared to Medium/Substack)

You don’t think most people that post to the likes of Medium or Substack also give up quickly?

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by Solvency »

ilyt wrote: post #44
dmje wrote: post #24

To me the idea of a small web is a great one. But then for some reason everyone equates small with "static builder" and before you know it you're into a hellscape of complexity with static site builders, SPAs and other madness. What happened to "I'll edit this .html file and FTP it up, with maybe a light sprinkling of CSS and js for any interactive elements"? Why did devs get obsessed with a deeply complex jamstack t…

> What happened to "I'll edit this .html file and FTP it up, with maybe a light sprinkling of CSS and js for any interactive elements"? What happened are people being annoyed with hand-fucking html every time they want to write a blogpost started writing/using static site builders

So instead of typing ("hand fucking") a few HTML characters around your blog post you trade it in for a big complex orgy of additional abstractions, tools, and processes.

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by Solvency »

rchaud wrote: post #46

This is a good start. Back in the Flash days, there used to be "Site of the Day" type sites where you could find cool stuff. Unfortunately this quickly got gamed and became a love-in for agency websites, each one upvoting the others, Product Hunt-style. A one-off $500 prize is just enough to get some interesting websites in there, while also not being enough to keep out the Linktree-type sites.

It was always like that. And theFWA.com still exists. It's always been an agency showcase. Always. Even back when the Got Milk flash game dropped.

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

#55

Post by vintagedave »

nicbou wrote: post #41
dmje wrote: post #24

To me the idea of a small web is a great one. But then for some reason everyone equates small with "static builder" and before you know it you're into a hellscape of complexity with static site builders, SPAs and other madness. What happened to "I'll edit this .html file and FTP it up, with maybe a light sprinkling of CSS and js for any interactive elements"? Why did devs get obsessed with a deeply complex jamstack t…

I like static builders. It's just markdown files and some templates. It makes editing much easier. If your website is about the content and not the presentation, it makes a lot of sense. I made my own static site builder (typical HN!) and it's just a python package. At its simplest it depends on Python Markdown and Jinja. The website itself is dead simple and gracefully degrades. It's just text on a page after all.

> I made my own static site builder (typical HN!) and it's just a python package

Same! I designed the look of my site, and then wrote Python to generate it, though instead of Jinja I even wrote my own templating library. The goal of reinventing the wheel was to learn Python through writing a non-trivial, useful app and libraries.

I haven't quite mustered up the courage to publish the source, yet, though: being a learning exercise I'm painfully aware some of the code is not as good as it should be. And I'm still learning what makes Python code Pythonic.

> What happened to "I'll edit this .html file and FTP it up..."

A SSG _is_ that, these days. My SSG generates my own site design. If I tweak the site's look and feel, I do that once and re-run the SSG. I wouldn't want to have to do that across multiple HTML files.

My process is:

* Write Markdown

* Run the SSG script

* FTP it up (overwriting previous contents; I have dated backups of every version, and the most recent run of the SSG is the canonical version.)

I entered the site in the competition, since it's no-Javascript, pure HTML & CSS, minimal, manuscript-style typographic focus, with articles on design, management, and the just plain miscellaneous. Very much going for the 'old-school personal site about whatever someone finds interesting' feeling, and hopefully some bits will be of interest to HN people too, maybe. https://daveon.design if you're interested!

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by vintagedave »

moritonal wrote: post #19
fjfaase wrote: post #16

The requirement is that the website should be created in the past year. That cancels out all those small websites (with no ads) that were created before social networks became dominant. I wonder if you will be happy when you small website will be rewarded as you may suddenly get a lot of traffic resulting in either becoming unavailable due to heavy traffic or forced on a more costly plan by the ISP. That is one reaso…

Yeah, the date requirement of deployment in the last year is oddly strict vs their target audience of slow calm websites.

There's a renaissance of interest in sites like this though. So - speculating - maybe they're trying to highlight that, what's new in the genre?

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by 2b3a51 »

Seamonkey browser reveals no visible content at all when visiting this site - just a blank window. I can see content in 'view source' but the main window won't resolve anything.

Links on the command line can resolve the text but of course does not display images. So when the OA says...

"Desktop AND mobile: projects must work across both desktop and mobile web"

...could we perhaps focus on what 'work' actually means for a Web site in 2023?

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by lionkor »

prakhar897 wrote: post #34

I have a few 1-Day made projects. For ex: This one showcases difference between skins in CSGO vs CS2 ( https://prakhar897.github.io/CS2vsCSGO/ ). Is it worth it to submit projects like this? Otherwise I think all awards will automatically go to Nicky Case (ncase.me).

quick note that the videos on that site only sync if they load at the same time, not guaranteed on slower connections

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by 2b3a51 »

vintagedave wrote: post #55
nicbou wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like static builders. It's just markdown files and some templates. It makes editing much easier. If your website is about the content and not the presentation, it makes a lot of sense. I made my own static site builder (typical HN!) and it's just a python package. At its simplest it depends on Python Markdown and Jinja. The website itself is dead simple and gracefully degrades. It's just text on a page after all.

> I made my own static site builder (typical HN!) and it's just a python package Same! I designed the look of my site, and then wrote Python to generate it, though instead of Jinja I even wrote my own templating library. The goal of reinventing the wheel was to learn Python through writing a non-trivial, useful app and libraries. I haven't quite mustered up the courage to publish the source, yet, though: being a lear…

Readable (just) in Seamonkey although some of the text is overwriting other text. Fully readable in links on the command line. Well done.

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by vintagedave »

2b3a51 wrote: post #59
vintagedave wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I made my own static site builder (typical HN!) and it's just a python package Same! I designed the look of my site, and then wrote Python to generate it, though instead of Jinja I even wrote my own templating library. The goal of reinventing the wheel was to learn Python through writing a non-trivial, useful app and libraries. I haven't quite mustered up the courage to publish the source, yet, though: being a lear…

Readable (just) in Seamonkey although some of the text is overwriting other text. Fully readable in links on the command line. Well done.

Thankyou! I'll check SeaMonkey. I've tested only Firefox, Chrome and Safari (and desktop and mobile) so far. Really glad to hear it works in links! That's awesome.

There should be a reasonable amount of accessibility markup too (in how it's structured plus some specific accessibility items) for screen readers as well.

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