The speed at which websites load has always been a core focus of online businesses. This only grows more and more true over time as the number of competitors increases, search engines have been penalizing slow sites, and more and more actual “User Experience” research shows how badly a slow site can hobble sales.

Many reports and articles out there show alarming statistics:

Such as a quarter of all visitors giving up on pages that take over four seconds to load. …

We oft make fun of Ballmer for his half-crazed sweat-flinging borderline mental breakdown, but his message was on target. Without giving developers the tools and knowledge they need to work with your system, they will not just be hobbled, they likely won’t drive whatever it is you’re working on forwards!

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Alas and alack in the trenches we see that developers canst be their own worst enemy in this regard. …

Continuing on from part one, let’s document the screen media stylesheet for my rewrite of the “Tailwind Starter Kit” Landing page. IMHO Tailwind is utter trash, and every off the shelf template for it I’ve ever seen proves said assertion.

For more information on what this article is about, please see the original links above.

Be warned again that this is going to be very text heavy, and I’m going to explain a lot of the “why” of things. This will likely include in some cases — like resets — how it came to be we use such things in…

In my previous article:

I went through and rewrote the landing page from the “Tailwind Starter Kit” to not use Tailwind, cutting the markup by more than half and using in total less code than they used just for the markup. This supports my supposition that at best it just shuffles things around into the wrong places, and at worst makes you write more code than you need.

Whenever I write a template for clients, or for people on forums, etc, etc, I do a section by section breakdown/explanation of the code so people can learn from it, and so…

Ever since I started speaking out here against the sloppy broken practices of the nonsensical trash that are HTML/CSS frameworks, my feed here on medium has been filled with articles that mindlessly praise it. In particular, there has been a stream of “top ten lists” of off the shelf pre-built pages/templates that pretty much prove what I’ve been saying all along: the people MAKING pages for others using this stuff — AND indeed those making these frameworks in the first place — do not seem to know enough about HTML to be telling others how to build websites.

Even if…

Pretty much what I expect from Svelte, and sadly that's not a good thing. ALSO what I expect from Github in making it as hard as humanly possible to find a damned thing thanks to the dozens of pointless files crapped all over the place across endless pointless directories... ALSO not a fan.

I'm not 100% familiar with svelte apart from ripping it out of two different projects where in both cases it was doing more harm than good... just like every other halfwit bloated train wreck of derpitude "framework" IDIOCY.

My biggest concern with your implementation is the lack…

You mean leverage all the techniques I outlined in my article warning about the propaganda?

https://medium.com/codex/the-7-propaganda-techniques-and-how-they-sucker-web-developers-cd03333b2f0b

If you thought that was deflection, you've proven mine. Again, comprehension, try it.

Are you even familiar with the source material? Probably means you didn't get my Ned Beatty jokes either.

"Christ Tony, how old is this kid?"