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Twelve Websites is an ongoing project that I began in 2021 to design[1] and build[2] a series of small websites, each in the course of a month. Here’s what I wrote about it[3] at the start of the project:
I like to make websites. I’ve made a lot of them in the past.
It takes a long time for me to make a website. Depending on the reason for making it, I often spend most of that time thinking, implementing something, changing my mind, and repeating the process. Sometimes I start with an interface in mind, but often the reason for creating the site evolves as it takes shape, so I shift what the interface is and refocus. Despite how long this takes, I like it because it means I get to spend a lot of time engaged in the experience of making. The process[4] is, after all, the whole point. The end product is often not that impressive or interesting.
I’d like to force a different way of approaching this. I want to see what happens when I am bounded by a timeframe; just one month to turn something that could be a website into a website. I have a very constrained amount of time to dedicate to this project, probably somewhere around 2-6 hours a week. That will require that what I make is simple in concept, design, and implementation.
Of course this means what I make each month will be the product of less than 25 hours worth of effort. I don’t want to make a shitty versions of what could be bigger websites, I want to make websites can be complete in less than 25 hours worth of effort. That means SIMPLE.
To be honest I have no idea what simple really means in this context. The point of this project is to figure that out. What is simplicity in design, implementation, and process?
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Last updated Sun Dec 12 2021 in Berkeley, CA
2: /thought/build-it-yourself.gmi
3: https://futureland.tv/christian/entry/34203
5: /thought/small-websites.gmi