Rohan Kumar seirdy at seirdy.one
Fri Jun 25 20:48:41 BST 2021
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 07:38:42PM +0500, Anna “CyberTailor” wrote:
I find these guidelines useful
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gemini://seirdy.one/2020/11/23/website-best-practices.gmi
Thanks for the shout-out; I was resisting the urge to self-promote :3. It's a living document that I update every now-and-then. Feedback is very welcome.
I wouldn't actually recommend reading too deeply into the article when just starting out; just try to keep your site relatively basic. Once your basic site is up, you can start going through the guidelines. The main theme is "simplicity leads to flexibility": the more "tech" you throw at your site, the more likely it is that someone in a niche situation is going to experience major issues.
The article actually borrows one idea from the philosophy behind Gemini: pages should respect the preferences of the user. Use the user's favorite fonts/colors (though maybe offer a dark stylesheet for users with darkmode enabled who use default settings) instead of "branding".
I'll probably update it this weekend. The image optimization section needs a bit of an overhaul since I switched from OxiPNG/ZopfliPNG to Efficient-Compression-Tool and started building libaom/avifenc with jpeg-xl's butteraugli tuning metric. I should also add some more advice on achieving good contrast with a dark background as per the Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm: bluish colors on a black background have lower perceptual contrast than, say, yellowish colors. I should also recommend keeping CSS under 1.5kb and inlining it, since CSS is a render-blocking resource.
I also need to make an article about self-hosting. A well-tuned custom-built Nginx+OpenSSL/kernel combined with a good TLS setup can handle a few thousand req/sec on a multi-core low-power single-board computer.
Oh, and try to support IPv6. The cost of a fixed IPv4 address is typically a few bucks a month; a VPS is basically an add-on to your IPv4 address at that point. For the next decade or three, IPv4 servers aren't going anywhere, but we can at least try supporting both.
Make sure your site works over Tor. Bonus points for offering a hidden service to eliminate the need for an exit node.
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