This website project

For a long time I have wanted to just write the simplest possible website, i.e. going way back to just plain old HTML/CSS and very little in the way of images. The result is this website which is about as easy to build as I can possibly imagine.

There is one index.html file that I put together in a miniscule amount of time ( I dont actually recall). It took me longer to setup the Raspberry PI it is running on to act as a webserver. So now when I want to create a new page I simply copy the index.html file and then change it.

And that is where the first complication comes. I am lazy but I dont like repeating myself and copy and paste is the worst kind of duplication. So now I need some way of including portions of the website (like the menu) without having to have the same code in all files. So now I want to look at Server Side Includes so I can be super lazy. And that again was just a bit of apache wrangling on the server. Nothing too onerous at all.

And then there is the deployment. So simple to move files across to a new box.

One of the things I do want to look at is how fast the page loads. It is running on a Model B Raspberry PI and I am intrigued what speed settings it would get from lighthouse.

UPDATE:I ran a lighthouse audit against the site and it got 97. I am not sure why not 100 possibly because it is an old Raspberry PI, not sure really. But happy with that.