Making Light Webites: Joining the 512KB club
As computers have gotten faster and internet infrastructure has developed, web sites have gotten larger and larger. Some popular sites require megabytes or 10s of megabytes just for a simple page of text and images.
The "typical" user — someone with a fast internet connection and the most up to date hardware and software — may be able to view these sites with no problems. But many users are "atypical", whether they are at a coffee shop, in a rural area, at any other place with unstable internet, or whether they are using old or non-standard hardware.
How can we develop websites in a way that serves users at the margins? How can we make a website resilient to infrastructural instability and limited resources?
This talk and workshop will go over some of the motivations for making websites small as well as some tips to build a website that can enter 512KB club (no affiliation). Come with an existing website you want to slim down, or build a new light site from scratch!
Your host will be alex, an engineer, creative technologist, and proud member of the 512KB club.
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