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The Urge to Change Layouts

11/11/22

So as the webmaster of ARandomSite, I have to choose how the site looks. For me and a lot of other webmasters, it's hard to make that decision. Some of us like to choose minimalist/brutalist designs with little CSS and a lot of text or some of us like to overload your browser with flashing lights, moving text, and a lot of GIFS (If you want to see an example, visit https://badhtml.com). Most of us (like me) have the site in the middle with some CSS but not too much. ARandomSite has gotten through a lot of layouts. If my memory serves me correctly, the first layout was a minimalist design. So right now, I have a pretty normal site design. It's more on the minimalist design but it's not quite there. I have the urge to make it more minimalist though. A good example of a minimalist page is https://motherfuckingwebsite.com. A lot of webmasters reading this know the feeling of when you just finished a layout and you want to make it perfect. I guess it's just human nature to want something to be perfect. And you can't change the way you are. There is this comedy sketch called "The Expert" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg) where the clients try to order 7 red lines from the expert, some in green ink, some in invisible ink, some in the shape of a cat. This shows how viewers see webmasters and how webmasters see the viewers. A good page to read more about is https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/. I like to see the feedback on what I do on my site like changing layouts. I posted a question about my minimalist design on a test server and it was generally accepted! There is this site called OpenBooks (https://openbooks.neocities.org/) and when they did the same thing, it was not well received at the time. I honestly believe that the internet should have a network of minimalist-designed websites! That's why we have Interevolution! (http://interevolution.loca.lt) Interevolution is a minimalist web design hosting service that I made and you should make a site on there! Also, I'm not ashamed about the plug btw. Thanks for reading this blog post! - ARandomInternetUser

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