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Assistant professor Jeff Huang has written a sort of manifesto for preserving content on the web. He goes over seven points that should be familiar to all yet will nevertheless be found to be novel by some. New or not, they are essential to follow if one wishes to future-proof a web site. Like other best practices, such as usability design and accessibility design, which are also currently increasingly ignored, the points in the manifesto are also less work to follow than to ignore.
- Return to vanilla HTML/CSS
- Don't minimize that HTML
- Prefer one page over several
- End all forms of hotlinking
- Stick with the 13 web-safe fonts +2
- Compress and rescale your images
- Monitor for URLs
Earlier on SN:
What's One Thing I Wish I Understood Better About Web Accessibility? (2019)
How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site (2018)
Conservative Web Development (2018)
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(Score: 1) by Ron on Tuesday December 24 2019, @03:21AM
Just make the whole damn page one big image.
Click anywhere to go to the next page.
Design your web sites like a book. Page one, page two, page three...
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