Tiny websites are great

#1

Post by stokesyio » Mon, May 18, 2020, 10:02 PM UTC

Tiny websites are great
tinyprojects.dev

Re: Tiny websites are great

#2

Post by sdan » Mon, May 18, 2020, 10:14 PM UTC

This is exactly why I was so excited that so many people found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23220081 interesting.

I do HTML from scratch and Flask w/HTML templates at most. Adding a couple of CSS files is all I'm looking towards, not a bunch of weird React code (which imo looks ugly).

Re: Tiny websites are great

#3

Post by thomas » Mon, May 18, 2020, 11:03 PM UTC

They are great but they are very bad for seo, so they are vastly underutilized.

Re: Tiny websites are great

#4

Post by jrimbault » Mon, May 18, 2020, 11:06 PM UTC

https://jrimbault.io/citation_needed/

I made that _tiny_ website for evenings with friends. It works great. You enter a few names, hit the save button, you get a list with scores and a +1 button for each players. When you refresh the page the scores are reset. The most important feature is the _ding_. The ding makes it fun.

It's ridiculously small, but it brings lots of fun.

Re: Tiny websites are great

#5

Post by lvturner » Mon, May 18, 2020, 11:07 PM UTC

thomas wrote: post #3

They are great but they are very bad for seo, so they are vastly underutilized.

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?

Re: Tiny websites are great

#6

Post by blueridge » Mon, May 18, 2020, 11:08 PM UTC

Yeah! I am with you on this. I've used nothing but HTML/CSS for all of my side projects for years. I manually create, update, and publish each page. Hell, I still drag and drop via FTP. It is indeed very fun.

Here's a screenshot of my latest project, nothing fancy, just starting to tinker with Tufte CSS and typography (Lyon Text and Concourse): https://cln.sh/BzBD

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#7

Post by trog » Mon, May 18, 2020, 11:15 PM UTC

Tiny websites are great!

It's interesting to note that the website content itself for this article is 5,045 bytes (HTML + CSS), but the analytics code (firebase-analytics.js) is 26,458 bytes, and firebase-app.js (whatever this is?) is 19,865 bytes.

Not a criticism; analytics is important & maybe the app JS is too. Just think it's worth bearing in mind that it's really easy to blow out your website's total delivery impact to users by several times with third party includes.

Re: Tiny websites are great

#8

Post by bArray » Mon, May 18, 2020, 11:17 PM UTC

I was nodding reading this and then:

> No libraries or frameworks (the exception being analytics)

There has got to be a better way of collecting analytics than to inject a bunch of crappy JS from some company (probably Google).

Re: Tiny websites are great

#9

Post by bArray » Mon, May 18, 2020, 11:17 PM UTC

jrimbault wrote: post #4

https://jrimbault.io/citation_needed/ I made that _tiny_ website for evenings with friends. It works great. You enter a few names, hit the save button, you get a list with scores and a +1 button for each players. When you refresh the page the scores are reset. The most important feature is the _ding_. The ding makes it fun. It's ridiculously small, but it brings lots of fun.

I really wish I thought of this, nice job :)

Re: Tiny websites are great

#10

Post by beamatronic » Mon, May 18, 2020, 11:17 PM UTC

"Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue"

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