I did, from scratch. Pure HTML and
CSS with a few lines of JavaScript
on the client side, and PHP with
MySQL on the server side, and that's it.
I use no frameworks, no libraries, no extenal
scripts, no external CSS, no font files, no
cookies—and no AI. Everything is extremely simple. None of
the garbage that bloats almost every site on he
web these days…junk that is often pressed
into service as a poor sbstitute for competent
programming these days.
This site is simple, but how fancy does a web
site have to be? The page you are readng is
literally a hundred times smaller than the
average web page on the Internet these
days—and most of what is downloaded is
images. My site doesn’t even require JavaScript
(although a few parts, such as the photo
galleries, will use it if it’s enabled).
Most web sites are around 4 MB in
size and may load two hundred files per page.
Mine is about 0.2 MB in size and typically loads
four or five files. Load time for my site is
about 300 ms, compared to around 19,000 for more
typical sites.
None of the above. As I’ve said, I’ve written this
site from scratch, with a text editor. I don’t need three
million lines of framework code. I don’t call
any libraries. I don’t need any “APIs.” I don’t
require a megabyte of CSS. I don’t load fifty external
JavaScript modules.
I use a text editor (an old copy of
UltraEdit)
to write the code, and
SecureCRT
to SSH into the server. I use
SecureFX
for movinng data files. That's
it.
By the way, I can reommend all three of these products wthout reservation,
they are all excellent. SecureCRT and SecureFX, in particular,
are second to none, and are among the most reliable and bug-free producs
I’ve ever used.
Since 1997 (29 years!), my site has received
24,232,890 visitors. Currently it is receiving an average
of about 1,190 unique daily
visitors—but I don’t know how many of those are human.
Most of the human traffic seems to be on weekends.
