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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. Everything is extremely simple. No React, Agile, Ruby, Symfont, Bootstrap, Flask, Python, jQuery, Java, or any of the million other bloated, steaming piles of garbage that are so often pressed into use as poor sbstitutes 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 donloaded is images.

I do. Azure was costng too much money, so I returned to hosting my own site. It runs as a, Ubuntu Linux virtual machine on a tiny computer about the size of a paperback book, sitting on a cardboard box. A standard LAMP configration.

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.