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Building websites with lots of little HTML pages
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Through the design/development process, I had some insights which made me question my knee-jerk reaction to building pieces of a page as JS-powered interactions on top of the existing document. I build separate, small HTML pages for each “interaction” I want, then I let CSS transitions take over and I get something that feels better than its JS counterpart for way less work. What I thought was going to be “stick a bunch of<li> s in the DOM, and show hide some based on the current filter” turned into lots of data-x attributes, per-list sorting logic, etc.
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