Designed to Last

I am simplifying the structure of my site. Previously there were multiple subfolders and too many files (each short post was its own file). This was adding unnecessary complexity to the whole process and the bad index.html on the posts and shorts page was messing with my head. With the simplified site, all those issues have been resolved.

I was inspired to make this change by this page. I am trying to follow the suggestions on there. To summarize, there are seven suggestions:

• Use vanilla HTML/CSS where possible
• Don’t minify HTML
• Prefer one page over several
• Don’t hotlink (embed content from another site directly)
• Use native fonts
• Compress images
• Use monitoring services to ensure URLs are not broken

I think my site is now even smaller. And easier to figure out, considering the much reduced number of pages. Anyway I am playing around so much so even this state might be temporary. Though I am a fan of minimalism so I am hoping that this will stick.

’Til Later