Ramin Honary on Nostr: My thoughts on “The Static Site Paradox“, by Loris Cro The article, in summary ...
My thoughts on “The Static Site Paradox“, by Loris Cro
The article, in summary says this: more technically literate people have simpler websites, usually just static sites generated from even simpler Markdown. Less technically literate people resort to using WordPress, which requires a SQL server, a PHP server, and tons of computing power to deliver to your browser what could be done with a static HTML page with hardly any computing power at all.
This is because technically literate people can afford to do the hard stuff required to setup your own domain, including setting up the server, deciding how to produce content, and the mechanisms to keep content up to date. Everyone else is forced to use services that do all of that leg work for you, but insert a bunch of overly-complicated technology (like WordPress or Drupal), after all they had better deliver all of those flashy features that you saw in the demo, even if you never use 99% of those features. Or worse: people just use Facebook or Twitter as their homepage.There are alternativesSites like https://neocities.org offer static site hosting with a very nice user interface. They have good built-in tools for writing HTML, but I think they lack a good WYSIWYG site editor.
#tech #internet #StaticSite #SimpleWeb #WordPress
The article, in summary says this: more technically literate people have simpler websites, usually just static sites generated from even simpler Markdown. Less technically literate people resort to using WordPress, which requires a SQL server, a PHP server, and tons of computing power to deliver to your browser what could be done with a static HTML page with hardly any computing power at all.
This is because technically literate people can afford to do the hard stuff required to setup your own domain, including setting up the server, deciding how to produce content, and the mechanisms to keep content up to date. Everyone else is forced to use services that do all of that leg work for you, but insert a bunch of overly-complicated technology (like WordPress or Drupal), after all they had better deliver all of those flashy features that you saw in the demo, even if you never use 99% of those features. Or worse: people just use Facebook or Twitter as their homepage.There are alternativesSites like https://neocities.org offer static site hosting with a very nice user interface. They have good built-in tools for writing HTML, but I think they lack a good WYSIWYG site editor.
#tech #internet #StaticSite #SimpleWeb #WordPress