How was this website even made? Honest answer is detailed below. Honestly, this page is very
outdated now, and I am too lazy to update this. Most of the information may be inaccurate.
Technologies used
- Pure HTML and no PHP.
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No CSS was used.[?]
It is not that hard to actually strip away every trace of stylesheets.
I went so overboard with this idea that I made a custom WordPress theme called Bare (
bare) that absolutely does not use CSS.
You may ask, Why?
Because, according to me, HTML before CSS and substance over style.
- Custom, design-stripped WordPress blog.
Focus
- Load speed of my website should be insane, and that unfortunately includes not rendering my self-hosted fonts.
- Semantic HTML and accessibility over styling.
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Why so stripped, though?
Think about it, I do not have to maintain stylesheets or ever look at styling nitpicks.
Zero maintenance over styling means I am free from something, and you also get the content quite fast and in an accessible form.
Win-win for everyone ;).
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On a side note, I first tested out a CSS theme from CSS Zen Garden.
Then, I experimented the power of raw stylesheets by creating a minimal CSS theme myself.
And at last, I landed here, with no stylesheets at all!
Pretty messy history of this website (and a bit contradicting), right?
- The minimalistic aesthetic that was present in every version of this website was partly or wholly inspired by this website's principles.
To-do
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Remove or comment out image bloatware like badges and webring widgets from
/links.html and /rsp.html.
Keep a textual copy of the webring widgets instead.