Posts with the tag « web-development » :

🔗 Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022

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I'm on a bit of a mission this year to bring back the spirit of the old web. The creativity and flair of the late 90s and early 2000s. Back then, there were no rules – you put whatever you wanted on a webpage, because it was your space to do as you please.

And for a whole generation of internet users, having a website was the cool thing to do. It's just what you did back then. We're talking pre-social media, pre-web 2.0 – the good old fashioned static personal home page.

Sites like Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod and Expage offered free static hosting for all, and the number of personal websites boomed. Some hosts offered drag-and-drop website builders so you didn't even have to learn HTML.

We might …

🔗 You can create a great looking website while sucking at design

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you don’t have to be an amazing designer. You just have to be resourceful and understand a couple of simple design tips. The internet is full of free tools and resources to supplement your lack of design skills.

I’m going to show you how to take advantage of those resources to create something that you can be proud of.

This guide will cover the tools, techniques, and resources I use for designing websites. It is not the end all be all but it is a great guideline for people who struggle with design. We are going to build an application called DesignDo. It will be a collection of design tips and resources (so meta!). Everything we use will be 100% free. To keep our focus on …

🔗 Pelican Documentation

Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python. Highlights include:

Write your content directly with your editor of choice in reStructuredText or Markdown formats
Includes a simple CLI tool to (re)generate your site
Easy to interface with distributed version control systems and web hooks
Completely static output is easy to host anywhere

Ready to get started? Check out the Quickstart guide.

🔗 Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup

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This is a list of small, free, or experimental tools that might be useful in building your game / website / interactive project. Although I’ve included ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools and toys that are as fun to use as they are functional.

The goal of this list is to enable making entirely outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens. <<<

🔗 Simple CSS

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Simple.css is a classless CSS framework that allows you to make a good looking website really quickly.

By classless I mean that there are no CSS classes anywhere in the CSS or the HTML. So your website can look just like this using plain old vanilla HTML.