Design Decisions of This Website

2023-06-23 11:21:40Z (last updated 2023-10-16 08:55:03Z)

This is a website. (If you didn't know that, well now you know!)

It looks quite basic. Heck, if you use light mode, it looks mostly like a page without any CSS.

Here's the thing: I'm not going to fill my website with eye candy. You already have enough of eye candy to deal with, and I don't know how to make good eye candy anyways. So I'm sticking to designing as little as possible, maybe changing a few things here and there.

Changing as little as possible

If you removed the CSS on this website, you'll see that it is... mostly the same.

You might notice that the page takes up the full width instead of limiting the width. Another thing you might notice is the fact that my CSS uses the `sans-serif` font, assuming you didn't configure your browser and continued to use the `serif` font by default.

Those are the few things I changed. Another one is borders for the details element which is usually used in the table of contents.

Changes are kind of far and few between, and there's not much different between plain HTML and plain HTML with some CSS.

Hyper text focused

This website is more focused on the page than the aesthetics of the page.

When you prioritize aesthetics, you might ruin everything else (accessibility or even basic readability) in the process. And oh boy are people going to be so turned off when they can't read gray text on a dark background.

Also, emphasizing the text of the page is much better than emphasizing anything else when you're a textual website.

Considering Accessibility

I do consider accessibility sometimes, but don't do an extremely too good of a job like what Seirdy does (which is way too good of a job). Though, this website should be usable with a screen reader because of its plain HTML-ness.

Seirdy's design standards

Other things

There are also other things too but I didn't feel like including them.

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