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Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by IggleSniggle »

coldpie wrote: post #36
llao wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI your font-size is uncomfortably huge, I can see maybe 25 lines of text on my desktop screen. It feels like I should step backward a meter or two.

Enormous fonts is a trend in modern web design for some reason. I browse most sites at about 66% zoom. Get used to the Ctrl+- shortcut.

(Conjecture) It’s because of devs like me who stare at a screen all day and have tired eyes. It’s sized for ourselves. I keep my code at 16pt, and most websites at zoom of 150%. When I’m on my tiny laptop, I like to zoom to 200% (and usually need to go to full screen mode as a result). For context, my vision was recently tested and I’m slight farsighted. Still, just more comfortable that way. Please make your sites accessibility friendly, folks! Much appreciated.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by bearbin »

greggyb wrote: post #64
llao wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI your font-size is uncomfortably huge, I can see maybe 25 lines of text on my desktop screen. It feels like I should step backward a meter or two.

And on the other hand, I'm running a 12" notebook at 1080p with no scaling, and I find the text to be exactly the right size. If anything, I'm tempted to zoom in a notch or two. Zooming on the web is a critical feature to me. I find pages all the time with nearly unreadably small text, and occasionally with text too large for me. Firefox remembers zoom levels for me, so I only have to adjust once per site, usually. T…

If you find yourself zooming in to new websites more often than not, it's possible to set the default zoom level in firefox. In about:config, set "layout.css.devPixelsPerPx" to the decimal zoom level you want. It will also grow the UI scale but you can reduce that by setting it to "compact" mode in the Customise menu.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

coldpie wrote: post #36
llao wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI your font-size is uncomfortably huge, I can see maybe 25 lines of text on my desktop screen. It feels like I should step backward a meter or two.

Enormous fonts is a trend in modern web design for some reason. I browse most sites at about 66% zoom. Get used to the Ctrl+- shortcut.

I think it's poor implementation of "mobile first".

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

melling wrote: post #57
gbuk2013 wrote: post #52

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No, it really is that simple, if you are taking about a “website”, not a “web application” or some sort of “platform”. Learn to do it by hand or you will forever be dependent on tools. VSCode or Atom is what everyone seems to be using but the more you are able to treat it as a text editor the better you will be. But since you say you are comfortable with programming, then a static site generator might be interesting…

You seem to not understand what I’m asking. I have Atom, VSCode, Sublime, JetBrains, ... I know vi and Emacs. I’ve programmed websites in Perl, Python, Java, Go, ... I didn’t realize we differentiate between applications and sites these days. In 2019, I’m one person who is willing to start with a clean slate. What current tools should I choose so, as one person, I’m most productive 6 months from now, once I’ve master…

So like "what's the best stack?"?

It's not really a sensible question IMO. It's like what's the best car - I say 1980s Countach ... then you say, but I can't fit my luggage in, so I say a Landrover Disco', and you say it doesn't fit in my garage, so I say a Porsche Cayenne and you say it's too expensive, ...

The best stack depends entirely on what you want to do with it, and yes web apps and web sites need different things (I'd say the former are computational, the latter are presentational).

Background: I've been doing solo web dev (but never full-time professionally and mostly casually) since last millennium.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by driverdan »

coldpie wrote: post #36
llao wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI your font-size is uncomfortably huge, I can see maybe 25 lines of text on my desktop screen. It feels like I should step backward a meter or two.

Enormous fonts is a trend in modern web design for some reason. I browse most sites at about 66% zoom. Get used to the Ctrl+- shortcut.

Are you using a low res display or high font scaling? On a modern high res display larger fonts work well.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by PavlovsCat »

gbuk2013 wrote: post #19
melling wrote: post #12

Any opinions on what are the best software choices for a single person to use in 2019 to build a website from scratch? I’d be willing to learn something new if I knew in 2 years, I’d be extremely productive.

Without knowing your OS: a text editor of some sort and an FTP/SFTP client. Then just get shared web hosting account - there are lots to chose from and they are super cheap these days. You can go a long way with that without having to mess around with maintaining your own server (unless you want to - I do :)

> a text editor of some sort and an FTP/SFTP client.

I very much agree in the sense of start simple, and grow. My progression was plain html, html plus php for header and footer, text file based CMS, finally a db-backed CMS that does everything I want how I want it. But that was also starting with knowing next to nothing, and to do it differently (more "efficiently") from the get go, I would have needed to just accept advice to use X, without really understanding what it does for me. I was a bit stubborn and not just suffering from NIH syndrome, I was in the cult of NIH. But I learned, it was fun, and I am glad how it worked out.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by munmaek »

okaleniuk wrote: post #10

I do run my own site. Moreover, I do all the coding, styling, and layout manually and without any 3rd-party libraries or frameworks. Or even in-house libraries for that matter. This works for me in terms of freedom. I can do interactive plots, quizzes, games and all kind of programmable things I can imagine. No restrictions. In fact, I left Medium because I was restricted to text and images only. I want more. I want…

I appreciate the amount of work and effort you've put in here.

I also maintain my own site which is statically generated and deploys to a VPS running docker via git pushes. I haven't written interactive articles yet, but having absolute freedom is imperative for me. I always end up fighting with whatever system I use, except here I can just extend it to do what I need.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by OrgNet »

I do and pay about $10/year for my VPS... so about $20 per year with domain name (domain names are overpriced)... I'm thinking about going to IP only... that way it would not crap out when google's DNS goes down...

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by 0xfeba »

munmaek wrote: post #87
okaleniuk wrote: post #10

I do run my own site. Moreover, I do all the coding, styling, and layout manually and without any 3rd-party libraries or frameworks. Or even in-house libraries for that matter. This works for me in terms of freedom. I can do interactive plots, quizzes, games and all kind of programmable things I can imagine. No restrictions. In fact, I left Medium because I was restricted to text and images only. I want more. I want…

I appreciate the amount of work and effort you've put in here. I also maintain my own site which is statically generated and deploys to a VPS running docker via git pushes. I haven't written interactive articles yet, but having absolute freedom is imperative for me. I always end up fighting with whatever system I use, except here I can just extend it to do what I need.

What do you mean deploys to docker? Does it deploy in a container running the web server?

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by 0xfeba »

drdeadringer wrote: post #68
dwheeler wrote: post #29

At least own your domain name and be able to easily move your website content to whereever you want. I think for most people it's cheaper and more convenient to use a hosting service, and that's fine... as long as you can change hosting services. I've had my personal site ( https://dwheeler.com ) since 1999. As noted in https://dwheeler.com/aboutsite.html my site has been hosted on 4 different systems, and I'm sure t…

> At least own your domain name I agree and I have a story to add to this. Despite there being a couple ways to spell my first name and literally dozens of ways to spell my last name, I share the same name as a rock star of similar age as myself down to the letter. While I do understand I didn't necessarily need a ".com" TLD URL and that I had other TLD options, it was the first availability I checked for obvious rea…

You're lucky the Rock Star doesn't go all Nissan.com on you (which appears to be NLA).
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