📝 Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns
Reconciling the differences between the craft of making websites and the industry that has grown around it.
> Handcrafted websites are made by humans for humans. This is what differentiates our craftsperson from the factory worker—what the craftsperson does is valuable to people, not businesses.
I had a short turnaround project come across my desk and decided to give up sleep for 10 days. Shop the Galleries promotes group art gallery exhibitions from across Saskatchewan, the latest of which contains 14 galleries. I did a platform upgrade and full redesign. #Websites#Design#WebDesign
Tired of lazy loading. Tired of spinners. Tired of animations. Tired of infinite scrolling. Tired of auto-playing videos. Tired of short articles being replaced by videos. Tired of every site having a chatbot in the corner. Tired of full page overlays reminding me to pay or subscribe to a newsletter.
I suppose the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Web team are not (yet) in the Fediverse, but I hope they one day fix this problem. MSN has a similar issue. Or maybe it's a bug in the Mastodon software, but I see a lot of news story shares in the Fediverse that look like this.
I am continually impressed by my colleagues, friends, and acquaintances that make their own websites, whether it's design, dev, strategy, or somehow manage the entire task on their own. Regardless, get out there and make a site for yourself. Reach out for help if you need it.
I'm collecting a bunch that have recently emerged or recently found, but until I collect them up for posting, here's one to start with:
Here at Pa11y, we think making the web more accessible improves it for everyone. So we publish a range of free and open source tools to help designers and developers make their web pages more accessible.