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Aren’t all webpages handmade to one extent or another? Or are these webpages that don’t use frameworks like React and Angular?
by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
Aren’t all webpages handmade to one extent or another? Or are these webpages that don’t use frameworks like React and Angular?
- pmlnr 6y ago"handmade" in this context usually refers to writing the raw HTML yourself; no framework, no nothing.
- qznc 6y agoSo using Markdown or something similar disqualifies? Even if i write the HTML template and generator script myself?
- rzzzt 6y agoIt depends. Did you write the scripting language?
- stephenhuey 6y agoIf you look at the submission form, he excludes "website builders" which I think would exclude things like Squarespace, Wix, etc. I suppose if one of those builder tools let you use Markdown, that would not qualify, but if you are using Markdown with something like Hugo or Jekyll, that seems legitimately "handmade" to me, but I don't operate that site. :)
- nicbou 6y agoWhat about a handmade template for a CMS?
- Vrondi 6y agoBy the spirit of the thing, Markdown ought not qualify
- not_knuth 6y agoI don't think "handmade" should be taken to literally, but rather be attached the meaning as described below. In my experience there tends to be a strong correlation between a website being hand-written and the quality of the content on the website. My hypothesis is that it somehow hits the sweetspot between: - creating your own SSG and only writing mundane blogposts about how you wrote that SSG (am guilty of this) - and pumping out raw thoughts on Twitter/Wordpress/Medium/Substack etc. I think that is at least part of what this website is trying to capture.
- franklampard 6y agoadjective: hand-written written with a pen, pencil, or other handheld implement. ...?
- judge2020 6y agoAll websites are the result of a human pushing power through a cpu and sending low voltage signals to it via a keyboard, so in a way all are handmade. That's why so many are wondering what qualifies as handmaid to this site's author - site builders like Wix-created sites probably don't count but do SSGs count? What about using _any_ css framework?
- swayvil 6y agoTho it's hard to define, it's pretty easy to distinguish. I think this could be said about much of reality.
- reaperducer 6y agoadjective: hand-written written with a pen, pencil, or other handheld implement. Lately I've been writing my personal web pages on my TRS-80 Model 100. I can hold that in my hands.
- masswerk 6y agoIn my experience, markdown doesn't offer much advantage over HTML, as writing a few short tags isn't much of a burden. (Even more so, if you use the old-style `b` and `i` phrase elements, which are apparently considered ok again. Personally, I still use `strong`, etc, which may be the most annoying feature for hand-written HTML. But this can be fixed by an editor shortcut.) Otherwise, a bit of server-side scripting for adding headers and footers and providing navigation is fine, but probably already outside the specs of "entirely handmade".
- itsamoreh 6y agoHandmade in the sense that they don't use frameworks like React or Angular. Just like how technically a box cake mix cake is "homemade" but usually if someone says "homemade cake" they made it from scratch.