Plain old web

Welcome back to when websites just worked.

No JavaScript frameworks to render a button. No CSS files the size of a novella. No loading spinners for your loading spinners. Just plain old HTML, a bit of CSS to keep it presentable, and maybe—if absolutely necessary—a few lines of vanilla JavaScript which degrade gracefully.

This site is a refuge for those who believe a webpage should be accessible, usable, and not engineered like it’s launching a rocket instead of showing a sentence.

You don’t need a framework. You need a <main> tag and some self-respect.

Guidelines

Here are six reasonable website guidelines. You don’t have to agree — but you’ll probably be wrong.

Articles

Here are a few articles about websites, by someone who remembers when <blink> was a mistake, not a library.