Alfred's New Ramblings

How to make your web pages look good anywhere

On Google+ someone shared a link to website on simplicity in web pages. The page says it will look good anywhere.  I tried on my handphone and its true, the text is nicely formatted and reflowed for the small screen.

A quick peek under the hood reveals nothing special, just lots of h1, h2 h3 etc.  Almost no /div.  Now I am curious.  A more detailed check in the header reveals this.

<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1″>

Try it out.

Google returns this site on design. link

link  NSFW language. There was a blog post by the author Barry Smith, but it has since gone dark.   A detailed examination

Update: 25 Feb 2020

Here is a spin-off.  link

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