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Indeed, but that's overkill for most personal sites...
by cozzyd 5y ago
Indeed, but that's overkill for most personal sites...
- onion2k 5y agoThat isn't really true. Adding things like image width and height attributes are basic essentials for any content drive website. If you push new content regularly then an RSS feed is very useful for visitors. If you want to be found in Google then you need a sitemap. If you're not going to do the absolute minimum for your site's users why bother making a site in the first place?
- Santosh83 5y agoI wouldn't say any of those qualify as "absolute minimum", particularly for personal sites which owe nothing to their visitors. Omitting img dimensions will cause nothing worse than reflow, while a "what's new" section can be a partial alternative to RSS. As for Google, I'd presume a properly linked (internally) site should be fully crawled even without a sitemap. Maybe not as efficiently, but again, for a personal homepage it is sufficient. Of course in that case one can ask why not just use WP or a SSG that gives you those for free. The downside is of course the time you need to invest upfront in learning those tools and then keeping up to date with their changes and breakages. In contrast, simple HTML, CSS and JS can be safely expected to work for decades at the very least.
- onion2k 5y agoIn contrast, simple HTML, CSS and JS can be safely expected to work for decades at the very least. 'make' is older than html by almost 20 years.