Small web pages are better

I remember a time when all web pages were walls of text, images were rare, and JavaScript was just something you used to scare each other.

It wasn’t necessarily a better time, but I felt like sites had more purpose, then came the Flash era, and now the “everything flashes” era. Most blog site templates are more concerned with your header images than making your content visible and readable. I feel like this is definitely not the optimal way to move forward. Plus it’s a waste of bandwidth, and processing power.

Worst of all, the new web means hours of tinkering and adjusting things, pretending to be a designer instead of a fucking webmaster.

This site stands in defiance of the new web, the designed by committee, beautiful, slick, nothingburger website. It’s probably mostly going to be crunchy, sometimes things might break, but most importantly I can do it all myself from anywhere with anything.

And now this site is now a member of the very limited 250kb club, celebrating sites that are built around content first. Of course now to show off this achievement I have to add more bloat and another piece of content to my templates, so here I go again…