blakewatson.com - The making of HTML for People

24/12/2024

URL: blakewatson.com - The making of HTML for People

He wanted to bring back personal websites. In theory, anyone with a facebook account who can use Word should be able to make one of these. Target audience was people unaccustomed to coding. Hence why me with my considerable scripting experience and computer set-up struggled with some of the most basic things. Did a fantastic job teaching this stuff though.

“Generating hype” on purpose seems really alien to me lol, but seems to have been behind my hearing of the project so! yay! # My takeaways I should spend a bit more time on the CSS for my website

Having early feedback/supporters motivating through the gruntwork.

Ahah! I neeed to scale, crush and convert the hi-res PNGs into WebP images.

Having a good splash-/landing-page makes a big difference! Like the thumbnail of a youtube video.

Not hosting on a tiny desktop in Nottingham would be better for international readers…

ohohoho, look what we have coming up: - https://phpforpeople.com/ by https://neatnik.net/ - https://cssforpeople.com/ by https://anniegreens.lol/

I should make my next public-facing project pretty from the get-go.

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