This is excellent! A free web book (it’s a book! it’s a website!) that teaches you how to make a website from scratch:
I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.
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- Building HTML pages is easy
- Pure HTML is evergreen
- Bloated web pages are too slow
- I can host it anywhere, often for free
- Accessibility and SEO benefits are automatic
- It won’t need security patches
- There are no build steps
It seems like the misguided perception of needing to use complex tools and frameworks to build a website comes from a thinking that web browsers are inherently limited. When, in fact, browsers have evolved to a tremendous degree
It would be much harder for a 15-year-old today to View Source and understand the code structure that built the website they’re on. Every site is layered with analytics, code snippets, javascript plugins, CMS data, and more.
This is why the simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.
I like how Paul has recreated his own version of This Is My Jam and I really like how he’s done it with an HTML web component.
Here’s a good walkthrough of adding microformats to your site, starting with h-card and moving on to h-entry.
First impressions of Google’s RSS killer …no wait, they already killed RSS.
Day twenty five.
Celebrating ten years of the wonderful community event.
A genuinely inspiring event.
Applying the principle of least power to tools and technologies.
# Liked by Aaron Davis on Saturday, October 12th, 2024 at 3:02am