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IMO kid's EXTREMELY opinionated guide for making a static website

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Making a static website has been a solved problem for a long time, yet people still manage to fuck it up in the most spectacular of ways. Google is not helpful either, since it gives you the next shitty version of Wix. Let’s start from the top. This is how you make a static website.1 A static website is one that serves the same content to everyone. A site like Facebook is not a static website because depending on who you’re signed in as, you’ll have permission to see different things. How that’s done is beyond the scope of this article, though. This site is a static website. Your personal website (if that is what you are making) will likely be one too. Before you write a website, you should know how HTML and CSS work. (You do not need to learn how Javascript works, because you should never use it anyway.) Be willing to Google, but know that most resources are counterproductive when it comes to web development. General principles to keep in mind are avoid Javascript at all costs2, gener

How to make a static website How to make a static website Making a static website has been a solved problem for a long time, yet people still manage to fuck it up in the most spectacular of ways. Google is not helpful either, since it gives you the next shitty version of Wix. Let’s start from the top. This is how you make a static website. 1 What is a static website, anyways? A static website is one that serves the same content to everyone. A site like Facebook is not a static website because depending on who you’re signed in as, you’ll have permission to see different things. How that’s done

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