About Web Site dev

OBJECTVE: playground for Website development 'my way'
Appalled at the stuff googlesites and wordpress generate.

Some rules :

• Always think Mobile / smartphone / smallscreen
• Keep it simple
• Use as much HTML as practical, HTML5 is current in early 2024, since 2021?
• how to organise webspace - images etc. Current Preference is for an images directory below the webpage so src="images/filename.jpg"
• keeping image sizes small, though later with a click for hi-res version..
• numerous problems with trying to use Absolute and Relative paths
  so much is dependent on the underlying operating system AND the Webserver
  for example I generally get header.php to work - but footer.php doesn't or randomly does .
• Local Tools
• "Mass Image Compressor" - useful for reducing size of JPGs
• "WinSCP" is ok for sftp moving whole directories to and from local PC to webspace

My History :

• some years at Mars in Telecoms, recall there is no good reason in wasting bandwidth
• developed many private, and some commercial websites
  Favourite fun was EuroTrash for Channel 4, invented a micro currency Ribbits for users to buy views or downloads of videos.
  and others for e-Inbusiness
  

To Do list: slide shows
Avoid Javascript, used to be favourite years ago, but has gone beserk too used on Google and Wordpress.
FYI almost anything from google - email or webpages carries 150kb of such rubbish