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About this Document

This document explains why and how to create a great personal homesite. The
text can be found below.
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Note to Readers

Date: 28-Jun-2006
Due to some
pretty
useless discussion of this article on the "Joel on Software" forum I'd like
to make some comments before everything. If you stumbled upon this article,
and wish to make a comment of "your site sucks so this article must also
suck", please note the following. (If not then skip ahead).
This is a classic Ad-hominem logical fallacy, where
one criticises the source of the claim (for some reason or another) instead of
the claim itself. The common "The Disqualifier disqualifies based on his
own defects." (a translation of a Hebrew phrase), is sometimes valid, but
often not.
I realise some people may not find the design attractive or interesting or
Web 2.0-ish enough. I
didn't try to stretch the limit of my web design skills on this homepage,
which at the time of this writing quite suck. I'm more of a web-developer
(not necessarily of dynamic sites or HTML, but even of plain HTML), than
a visual web-designer.
Many web-shops or consultants have separate people for writing the content
and markup, and separate people who specialise in making it attractive
visually. I could try hiring a professional to re-design my site for
me, or borrow an existing design with permission, so this site will be more
In any case, this design is optimised to not be too intrusive and distracting
of the content.
If you have any comments on the site send them to me by
email. My site may still have some issues. If you have any comments
(problems, omissions, corrections, etc) on this article, you can either send
me an email or comment where the post was made. But doing ad-hominem bitches
on both is bad karma.
The Google ads were placed on this site because I am trying to monetarily
justify the time and work it takes me to work on the site, and the pay I have
to pay for quality hosting. All the contents on this site were composed by
me, are presented here free of charge, almost all are freely re-distributable,
and a lot of them are
free as in freedom.
All the Google ads should be fully textual, or at most a non-animated
text-on-an-image. None of them are animated, and none of them are
flash-based. So they should be as non-intrusive as possible. I'm making little
money from selling the content of the site, and would rather put some
"annoying" ads than make their licence more restrictive. I hope you understand.
The PayPal button is there from the same reason - to try and justify the
amount of work I put on the site. I'm not "begging" people to donate, I'm
just kindly asking them. Another advantage is that when people hire me as
a contractor or consultant for some web work, and would like to pay me by
PayPal (which has already happened several times), I can refer them to
this page with the
donation button.
If I ever become rich and famous, I'll probably remove the ads. Right
I'm
moderately famous and am very far from being a millionaire.

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The Article Itself

Introduction to the Second Revision

It's amazing how much has changed since I've published this article
a few years ago. The most important trend was probably that personal blogs
seem to have become much more prevalent than personal web-sites up to
the point that some people referred to www.shlomifish.org as a blog. I have
been annoyed at this to some extent, and even wrote
an entire
essay about the distinction between a home page and a blog and why
this homepage is not a blog.
Nevertheless, as an
active blogger, it's not that I hate blogs or try to underrate them -
it's just that I think that I invest more effort and rigour in writing
articles or essays on my home page, than I do on the various random stuff
I post to my blogs. (Or to other similar public channels, such as mailing
lists, web forums, comments on other people's blogs, etc.). I also feel that
it is easier to find posts on my personal web-site than on most people's
In any case, in the new version of this essay, I also hope to give some tips
about managing a personal web-site that is mostly a weblog, because this
format seems to be popular lately.
The publication of the original story was disappointing to me because after
I announced it on the Joel on Software forum, I
received a lot of "Pot Calling the Kettle
Black" criticism about my home-site, while people did not seem
too interested in reading the original essay and commenting on it. Some
of the criticisms I received were addressed in the
after-the-publication note, and many of the problems pointed out to
them were remedied after the fact. I hope this edition of the article will
be better received.
This edition of this essay features many corrections, updates, additions,
and general love. Like its predecessor, it is made available under the
Creative Commons Attribution licence ("CC-by") for almost free
re-distribution, re-use, quoting and mixing. This time there are comments
on this page (JavaScript-based and powered by
Disqus, as I'd rather keep the
site as static HTML), so feel free to let me know what you think about
the article here. In any case, enjoy, and I hope this article will motivate
and enlighten you about how to create a wonderful personal web-site
(possibly in a mostly-blog-format), and that it will advance the
state-of-the-art in the general quality of such web-sites.

Introduction

We've all seen it - the bad home site: flashy or non-standard colours,
annoying animations, large text all over the place; too little content,
obscure pages that no one knows how to get to from the reachable ones;
no navigation menus, no site map, and no breadcrumbs trail; horrible markup and
too little content to show for. If you want to have a good laugh, then
DivisionTwo magazine has an
insanely funny
parody of the bad homepage (warning: contains a lot of explicit
Perhaps more prevalent than the bad personal web site is the not-too-good
personal web-site. This is a site that seems organised, the design is
acceptable and the mark-up is mostly semantic and valid, but there's not
much there to hold one's interest for long. It seems that the originator
created it and then mostly forgot to put interesting stuff there and constantly
work on improving it.
However, occasionally in one's infinite browsing, one can find some good
personal home sites. They have a consistent style, valid markup, a common look
and feel, are attractive to the eye, load quickly and have a lot of good
content for hours of online enjoyment. The purpose of this essay is to
explain what the elements that make a good home site are, for everybody there
who have a home site or want to have one. It will also touch on some of the
technicalities of creating and setting up one.
One note that is in order is that lately we've seen an inflation of online
journals (also known as blogs or
weblogs), that many people seem to think can be used instead of a more
organised home page. The main problem with most blogs is that finding old
information there tends to be much harder than an organised homepage
such as mine: they do not
have a good tree of contents, use by-date URLs instead of nested ones,
their search facilities tends to be very bad (or they only provide a Google
search that is often ignorant and is often "lying"), etc. If you want to
use a blog as a homepage, make sure you read and implement the advice I
give here as well.
Alternatively make sure you have a personal web site as well as a blog using a
content management system (CMS) that is more suitable for one.

Why have a Home Site?

So why should you bother with having a personal home site? There are several
advantages to have a great one. Here are some:
More people will know about you.
You'll receive a lot of feedback from other people, and often engage in
interesting conversations with them.
You can bring in a lot of publicity to yourself, and your business.
You can make money from advertisements and donations.
You'll be able to practise and improve your writing skills, artistic skills,
You can link to your favourite pages and resources on the Web.

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src="rmag-park-shlomif-1-465w.jpg" alt="Photo of a Park in Northern Tel Aviv"

Elements of a Good Site

The elements that make a good home site are divided into two: content and
presentation. Let's tackle them one at a time.

Great Content

Filling your home site with a lot of content takes a lot of time
and requires quite a lot of work. It is also a process that requires
one to invest more time working on the site into the future. It is, however,
very fun.
Here is a list of items you can put on your web-site in its early incarnations
if you don't have any good ideas of your own:
Information about yourself: resumé, biography, etc.
Hyperlinks to pages and resources you like or are related to.
Photographs you took.
List of recommended books, movies, artists, etc. Note that you can benefit
from such items using
the
Amazon.com associate program and similar associate programs.
Fan sites for Music artists, T.V. shows, Movies, etc.
Archives of favourite quotations and collections of jokes.
A weblog (= online diary), or at least a link to it. ([Interesting Weblogs]
A PayPal donate link, a link to wish-lists on online stores and
web-based
ads, and a merchandise store (e.g.: one
based on Cafe Press).
All of these may bring some revenue from the site.
Once you've set up a home site you'll probably find that you have more and
more ideas on what to put there. But you first need to overcome the first
obstacle and actually get a web-site.

Good Presentation

Now for the second aspect of a great site: a good presentation. This involves
a very large number of different elements. The list below aims to be as
encompassing as possible, but it is possible some points are missing or some
will need to be added in the future.

Security

A website needs to be secure. The most possibly secure web site is a static
HTML one where the HTML is served directly from the server, without the
server processing it. This is adequate for the needs of most web-sites,
especially personal home sites.
Alternatively, if you want to have a server-side generated web-site you need
to make sure it doesn't have SQL injection attacks, Cross-Site Scripting (or
HTML injection or XSS) attacks, privilege escalation, comment or wiki spam
(see the
rel="nofollow" attribute for instance), or any other security problem.
This requires much more conscious effort and discipline than a plain HTML site.
A server-side Content Management System (CMS) of some sort allows one to edit
the pages using a web browser, and also allows web page visitors to add
comments or even extra content to the pages. (With all the other
implications of such interactivity). One possible way to have such a CMS is
CMS hosting. Essentially, a CMS hosting provider manages many instances of the
same CMS on its servers, allows one to register his own instances, and
maintains and upgrades them all at once. That way, you can have your own
CMS without much of the maintenance headaches.
Of course, if the CMS host neglects to install an update in time, then you
still have a security problem. But it is still probably a better idea than
deploying your own CMS on a normal hosting account.

Navigation Aids

In my previous article
"Building
Navigation Menus" I gave a list of common patterns in web-site
navigation. They appear under the heading "Common Patterns in Navigation Menus
and Site Flow" in the article. Here is a list of them without too much explanation:

A tree of items

Next/Previous/Up links to traverse a site

Breadcrumb trails

hidden pages and skipped pages

A site map

A good site should have a navigation menu, and possibly the other navigation
aids mentioned here.
One thing that was omitted from the article (due to being too new to be
included) is
a
Google Sitemap. This provides a list of interesting pages in the site for
Google and other search engines. Note however, that it is only necessary if
these pages are not directly accessible from the main page, for example if
you're using JavaScript for navigation or to generate a common navigation
menu, or if you're using a content management system that manages the pages

Visual Appeal

A good site has good visual appeal. It is pleasing to the eye, interesting
to look at, and isn't intrusive. A central element to such a design is a common
look and feel of the site. Generally all pages should contain a navigation bar
or two, some common icons, a footer, etc. If the general display of the page
changes from page to page, the site's visitor will feel confused. If the pages
are plain HTML pages, with no dedicated blocks, then the site will be harder
to navigate and also look unprofessional.

Valid and Semantic Markup

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src="cat-walk-by-piez.jpg" alt="Cat Walk by Piez" class="rfloaty"
There are definitive standards for HTML and related technologies as set by the
World-Wide Web Consortium. By following the
standards, one can make sure that present and future browsers will know how to
handle the page correctly. See
the
designing for compatibility section in my
"Web Publishing Using
LAMP" presentation for more information.
A good site master makes sure the markup of all or most of his pages
validates. It leaves a better impression, is much easier to maintain this way,
and would make sure your web page is displayed correctly in the future
(barring some surfacing web browser bugs). Note that the valid markup does not
affect how the page is presented and you can easily style it in very attractive
ways, while still adhering to web standards.
Refer to the Web Standards Project
for more information.
Aside from being markup, your markup should be semantically correct. So, for
example if you want to make a text larger, you should use CSS instead of
designating it as a heading (<tt>
</tt>, <tt>
</tt>, etc.).

Colour Choice

Aside from looking attractive, the choice of colours in a site needs to be
non-intrusive enough, and correspond to how people read the page. For example,
flashy colours are too hard to see through, and should not be used as
the backgrounds of titles. The body of the page itself should be distinguished
from the main page layout somehow.
I admit that I am not an expert in this area, and some of my designs are
bad in this regard. Someone once pointed me to several problems with one
of my designs, which he and I thought were relatively OK. I must say, what
he said simply made a lot of sense, and was perfectly obvious, yet I thought
the design was OK beforehand.
A different issue with colour choice is making sure one's page is accessible
to people with the various types of colour-blindness. The problem is that
are three such types (Red-impaired, Green-impaired, and Blue-impaired) and
making a good colour choice for that is hard. Most colour blind people can
be expected to customise the page layout using custom CSS stylesheets, so
it may not be much of an issue. And if all the important content is in text,
it will always be accessible enough.

Responsiveness

The pages of a good web site load quickly and the web site as a whole feels
responsive. Putting an excessive amount of images (especially large and poorly
compressed ones) on a web site is guaranteed to cause it to load more slowly.
Other culprits are a bloated markup, an excessive amount of JavaScript,
and a slow connectivity of the host.
Good web-sites heavily optimise for limiting the bandwidth, because it affects
broadband users, and people with a slow connectivity much more so.

Various Annoyances

There are many common annoyances in web-sites. Some of the most common ones
A horizontal
scroll bar, that prevents the entire width of the site from being visible.
A webmaster should realise that it's not enough to make sure there is none
when the browser is maximised in a large screen. By all means, many people
use much lower widths, and the web designer should accommodate for them.
Frames are
evil, and should be avoided. If you want a common look and feel, you should
generate your pages from templates, either off-line or on the fly.
Most JavaScript is incredibly annoying and often useless. It also many times
makes the site much less portable across different browsers and accessible.
It is often added either because people want to demonstrate their JavaScript
skills, or because broken site-generation programs insert it there.
Animation on web pages is incredibly annoying and distracting. Some people
claim that a web page should only have at most one animated image. I think that
usually even one animated image is too much. (If you want to display a movie
demonstrating some action, then an animation on an isolated page is naturally
an option.)
Pop-ups are annoying and should be avoided. Plus, most browsers give mechanisms
to prevent them from appearing anyway.
There shouldn't be any excessive dependency on Macromedia Flash, and no Flash
animations on the front page. Flash is not open-source, often causes
accessibility problems, can be very annoying, and most people quickly grow to
hate it. Some people completely disable Flash on their default browsers.

Nice URLs

Imagine the URL <tt>http://www.myhost.tld/index.php?section=about&subsection=personal&page=bio</tt>.
Such URLs that contain an excessive amount of CGI parameters are hideous. A
good site is served on the root, and uses nice URLs with slashes. Something
like <tt>http://www.myhost.tld/about/personal/bio/</tt>. Assuming you're using
a server-side scripting technology, you can easily implement it using the
<tt>PATH_INFO</tt> environment variable. (You should avoid using Apache's
mod_rewrite and friends for that, because they cause a lot of trouble for
such things).
The sections in the site should be properly nested. If something belongs under
something else it should follow its URL with a slash and with the new
component. So for example, graphical art created using Inkscape should be
under "/art/graphics/inkscape/", etc. It will be a good idea to browse
other
people's homepages and see what kind of things they have there to see
how to appropriately section and sub-section your home site.

Absolute Links

A good site shouldn't have any links like
<tt>http://www.mysite.tld/some/place/</tt> within the site, as they will break
if the site moves to a different place. Preferably, no links that begin with
slash, should be present, either, because they will break if more components
are added or removed to the beginning of the site. Coding a logic that will
calculate the relative link to an absolute path within the site, is not very
hard using with some rudimentary programming skills.

E-mail for Giving Feedback

A web-site should have a meaningful E-mail at the footer for giving
feedback. Many web-sites have a form for submitting feedback. This is less
comfortable for many users (including most power users, which you should really
cater for), and often also breaks in many browsers.
Some people believe one should not mention his or her E-mail on the web so
he won't receive any spam. So let me assure you of this: spammers will
eventually learn of your E-mail address whether you like it or not. The best
way to battle spam is to make sure you filter it on your side using a good
spam filter. (I'm using
SpamAssassin and am very happy
with it, but there are many others).
On the other hand, preventing legitimate users from sending you mail just by
pressing a link at the bottom is going to make everyone annoyed. So make sure
you have a link like
<tt>email@example.com</tt>
at the bottom of all your pages.
It would be a good idea to also have a contact form, so people can contact
you just by browsing the web. But it's not a replacement for an E-mail
For further discussion see
this
thread that I started on the "Joel on Software" forum about
"E-mail at the bottom of every page".

Usability, Accessibility and Portability

Usability, accessibility and portability are related topics that are all
very important aspects of a good web-site. There are several
aspects of them:
Accessibility for People with Disabilities - not everyone can view
the web site in with full colours, in full page and clearly. Some people are
blind, or even both blind and deaf. Some people are colour-blind. Some people
can't see rapid flickering properly. And so forth. A good web-site uses
semantic markup that accommodates for all of them, and enables viewing the
web-site in any medium.
Portability to Different Browsers and Platforms -
not everyone are using Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6.0 on a Microsoft Windows machine. Some people are
using Linux, Mac OS X, or a different version of UNIX. Some people are using
Mozilla
Firefox or a different browser, and <a
percentage is significant  (about 30% as of November 2005) and
growing. Plus, they are a very important minority, because they tend to know
better than the masses who use Explorer.
A site should be compatible with as many browsers as possible. This should be
done by adhering to web standards, and using portable markup.
User Interface Usability - a web site should have a familiar
and intuitive user interface, which people would be able to know their
way around very easily.

Site News

Visitors who frequent the site would probably like to know what has changed
in the site since their last visit. Unfortunately, many web-sites don't have
an accessible feed of news items. Generally, the front page of the site
should display the most recent news, with all the old news items archived
somewhere for posterity.
Recently, news syndication technologies such as
RSS or
the more modern Atom have emerged
that allow users to concentrate the news items from various sites. A good
web-site should have such feeds for what has changed there.

Site Search

A search engine for your site is a wonderful enhancement for your site. You
can easily set up such a search engine using
the Google Search Code
and similar services from other online search engines.

Publicity

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src="harduf-by-shlomif-1-300w.jpg" alt="Nerium Oleander Flowers in Tel Aviv"
When you publish an exceptionally good feature on your home page or blog,
you would probably like to publicise it on news sites, various types of
Internet forums, weblogs, social bookmarking services, and other venues
that can give you publicity and drive traffic to your site. An incomplete
list of such sites of general interest are:
StumbleUpon
Delicious
Digg
Reddit
Slashdot.org - "News for Nerds. Stuff that
Hacker News
And you can find more using a web or wikipedia search.
One thing to note is that if a page on your site is featured highly on
one of these sites, then you are likely to receive an increase in traffic.
You should make sure that your site can handle such a load so it won't suffer
from the so-called Slasdhot effect.

Search Engine Optimisation

One aspect of making sure your site gets a lot of traffic is white-hat
Search
engine optimisation, whose purpose is to increase the position of various
pages on your site higher in the results returned by search engines. There
are various resources about how to rank highly on popular search engines. Here
are some that I know about:
Michael
Crawford's "White Hat Search Engine Optimisation" provides a useful
introduction for some basic techniques and the general need for them.
Jennifer Slegg's blog about Search
Engine Optimisation and Search Engine Marketing provides a useful read.
While she doesn't go very deep, and often gives advice that seem obvious or
common sense, it is still useful to follow and read about.
SEOmoz is a blog by a company
that specialises in search engine optimisation. I used to be subscribed
to their RSS feed, but was overwhelmed by the amount of traffic there
and by the lengths of the posts. They also seemed to cover a lot
of minutiae and micro-optimisations. I felt that implementing all
of their suggestions would give me much less time to work on good
content to put on my site.

How to Build such a site?

By now, you probably have a good idea about what to put and not to put in a
good personal home site. However, you may not know how to do it. So here's
a step by step explanation of how to build a web-site for people who are
completely new to programming and web-design.

Learn HTML According to the Standard. The first thing you need to do
is learn standard XHTML (an XML-based dialect of HTML, which is cleaner
and more powerful than standard HTML). I recommend the
HTML Dog HTML and CSS Tutorials, which
are very good.

Learn to Use a Web Site Generation System - complex and good
sites are impossible to maintain by editing a large number of separate HTML
pages. For example, you want all the page to have a navigation menu and a
common layout and you'd better maintain it all in one place without
keeping a lot of duplicate markup. Here is an overview of several
Latemp - what I'm
personally using for most of my sites. Based on
Website Meta Language, which has a relatively
steep learning curve. Latemp and Website Meta Lang are very powerful and
capable, and one can create very good sites with them, with very little
redundant markup.
A Templating System - Perl's Template
Toolkit is an extremely powerful and capable templating system.
HTML::Template is not as
powerful, but easier (and, in my opinion, much lamer). The Python programming
language has a templating system
called "Cheetah" which I did not look into yet and so cannot comment on
Clearsilver is a cross-language
templating system, that can be used from several common languages, and combine
code from any of them.
Other Web-site Generation Systems - I'm aware of
WebMake, and you can find others
in the list of Open Source Content
Management Systems.
Rolling your own - once you learn programming, you can naturally roll
your own framework for generating your site. This will not be hard at first,
but you may find that you may need to constantly enhance it, fix bugs, etc.
As a result, it will be a better idea to use an open-source framework, that
is already quite usable, and will be maintained into the future.
A Note about WYSIWYG Site Creators - some web workers are
using WYSIWYG (= "What you see is what you get") site creators to maintain the
content of their sites. Among the most-prominent ones are
Microsoft FrontPage,
Macromedia (now
Adobe) Dreamweaver and the open source Mozilla-based
KompoZer. There are a few
facts that you need to know about them.
The first is that they often have generated markup or server-side code that
is often non-standard, non-semantic, or non portable across browsers.
Hopefully, it's better with more recent versions of them, but possibly still
not perfect. The second fact is that they often have a "lock-in" behaviour,
in which you only get the final output, and not the actual internal
templates used to generate them. Reverse-engineering them is possible, but
less trivial than with the programmatic site generation frameworks that I
Finally, another problem with them is that when writing HTML one has to
write a semantic markup for the pages, and then decide how to style it
appropriately, rather than design a page visually, and then generate markup.
Whether you use such tools or not, you still have to learn HTML and CSS
beforehand, to have a good understanding of what the tool does behind the
scenes. I personally had little experience with such tools, as I find writing
markup by hand to be very quick, fun, and like the fact that it produces
optimal results.

Write the Code - now comes the fun part: write the markup. You can
start from a very minimal site, and gradually expand it, and, if necessary,
clean it up. Don't worry if you don't have enough content at first - you can
always add more later, and you can refer to my earlier
ideas for content you can always put on your site.
You can use a web server running on your local machine to serve the files on
your local host and test that everything works.
Apache is a very nice
cross-platform and flexible web-server, and it is probably included in your
Linux or Mac OS X system assuming you are using one of them. If you're using
Windows you can always install it separately - it's open-source and gratis.

Set up a Good Hosting for your Site - once you have a basic site ready,
the next step is to set up a good hosting for your site. A good hosting has
a good connectivity to the Internet backbone and the rest of the world, does not
display any ads or pop-ups, and allows one to have an unlimited bandwidth
(possibly while paying for more bandwidth as it is generated). It will also
probably cost you money, but not too much.
One can use various mechanisms to update the remote copy from your local copy.
Some of the most prominent ones are:
FTP -
short for File Transfer Protocol is the oldest. It is commonly supported,
but transfers passwords and data in plain-text. Many hosts are likely to
support it, but there are already better alternatives.
SFTP
- short for SSH File Transfer Protocol is similar to FTP, but provides
full encryption and a secure authentication and transfer. As such it is more
Many popular open-source file transfer clients such as
FileZilla and
LFTP also support transferring using
The
Files transferrred over shell protocol can be used instead
of SFTP, if you only have an ssh account.
rsync is a gratis and
open-source program that allows one to transfer files over a secure
shell connection incrementally. I.e: if you changed a word in a file, or
changed some text, it will only transfer the modifications. It is also smart
enough to avoid transferring files that haven't changed since the last
time again and again.
rsync is especially useful for incrementally uploading data on top of a home
connection with a limited upstream bandwidth.

Use a Version Control System for Maintaining your Site - as you work on
your site and revise it, it is possible you'll break something. A version
control system, allows you to keep the entire history of the pages, view the
difference between two versions, and easily perform rollbacks.
The various ad-hoc ways of version control like keeping <tt>.bak</tt>,
<tt>.bak2</tt>, etc. files or keeping periodic archives, are not as robust,
or failsafe as using a true version control system.
The Better SCM site contains a
lot of links and information regarding the various version control system.
I am personally using the Subversion
version control system, which I can wholeheartedly recommend.
In any case, note that you must eventually use a version control system,
because otherwise the integrity of your work would be at risk.
Get your own domain - as
Jakob Nielsen notes about
Weblog usability, you should get your own domain, instead of relying
on that of a blogging service, or a free web-space provider (such as
googlepages.com). Your own domain allows you to relocate your site, to
and to leave a better impression and to have more control over your
There are plenty of domain registrars out there. I like
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Now you should remember that your homepage is a process. Make sure you add more
content as time goes by, refactor
it, adapt it for more modern styles, fix problems, and in general give it some
love. The more you care for your home site, the more popular it will become
, the more visitors it will attract and the more fun you'll have.

Critique of some Home Sites

The purpose of this section is to review some prominent home sites which I'm
familiar with, and see what their originators have done well, and what
they have not. All these web-sites have these things in common: they
all belong to people who are not close friends of mine, they are all famous
people in the software world, and they all have great content.
I will conclude by reviewing my own
personal site.

Paul Graham's Home Site

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Paul Graham's site is beautifully designed, and contains a lot of interesting
essays and articles. It has a navigation menu to the left, made out of images,
but it does not expand or change from page to page. What's worse is that all
the pages are present on the same top directory - <pg_link1 "arc" />,
<pg_link1 "faq" />, <pg_link1 "books" />, <pg_link1 "nerds" />. Let's suppose
you end up at <a href="<pg_url "zero" />">this page, called "zero.html",
what page does it belong to? Even the Google
back-links feature is no help today. (The spoiler is that it belongs
to this page).
Graham routinely adds new essays to the site but he does not maintain an RSS
feed by himself. Instead, the RSS feed is maintained by someone else, and
often lags behind the dates in which the actual essays appear.
The URLs of the various pages are often not semantic enough. For example:
<pg_link1 "hp" />. Without accessing the URL, what do you think of when
you see "hp"? My immediate guess would be Hewlett-Packard and
Google
agrees with me. I might also think of "Harry Potter",
but in the case of Graham's site it stands for "Hackers and Painters".

The "Joel on Software" Site

The Joel on Software site hosts
Joel Spolsky's weblog about the software industry, as well as articles
he routinely publishes. The site uses the XHTML 1.0 Strict DOCTYPE but
does not validate. The web pages look fine
in the lynx browser, and so they are
most probably very accessible.
The front page contains a navigation menu and some site branding to the right,
which is nice. The other pages such as
this one do not.
The book
section contains only the books Joel thinks are a must, and not others that he
read and reviewed in time, or mentioned. (That's not good.)
Some of the URLs contain long numbers: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html. This is quite user-un-friendly. It has been fixed in newer articles,
but there are still some leftover articles like that.
The site looks great, and is very aesthetic and pleasing.

Eric S. Raymond's Site

Eric S. Raymond's Home site contains
a lot of software Raymond has written, documents he wrote, and some
information. Most of the pages on the site validate as XHTML 1.0. Most of the
pages contain a rudimentary navigation menu to the left, but it remains static,
and doesn't change from page page. The pages are quite plain looking and
boring from this regard. The site contains
a
site map which is a good thing.
The pages in the site are arranged hierarchically. So for example
the essay "The
Cathedral and the Bazaar" is below
the Writings directory. This
is also good. Sometimes this hierarchy as far as the URLs is concerned
has been broken, due to historical or other reasons.

Daniel J. Bernstein's Personal Site

Daniel J. Bernstein's Personal Site is probably
the worst best site on the Internet. It uses plain HTML pages without any
style or eye candy. Similarly to Paul Graham's site, almost all the pages are
found under the root directory - "/qmail.html", "/djbdns.html", "/crypyo.html",
etc. There is no navigation menu, or any other organisational or navigation

Critique of my Own Personal Home Site

My home site has a common look and
feel, a navigation menu, a breadcrumbs trail, and a site map.
Most of the pages there validate as XHTML 1.1, It has a news feed that mentions
what has been updated in the site, and
old News items are
preserved in their page.
The old style of the site was a bit "Web 1.0"-esque, with some plain colours
and boring (it's still for reference as an alternate stylesheet).
A few months ago, I switched the style to a style based on
the "Smoked" WordPress
theme, and then heard several complaints that the text was too narrow.
This was fixed a few days ago, when I tweaked the style, and its accompanying
images to make them wider.
Some of the sections of the homepage, contain their own navigation menus,
in order to make the main navigation menu less crowded.
The layout of the site is mostly hierarchical, but often there are
pages or categories outside their containing categories (for
example my MathVentures
section is at /MathVentures/ and is contained in
 /puzzles/ , due to
the fact pages were originally placed at certain places, and I'd rather not
move them, so they won't break in the results' pages of search engines.
The breadcrumbs trail and the section navigation menus compensate for part
of that, but it's still a problem.

Conclusion

Having a good web-site is a lot of hard work, but it's also very fun and
rewarding. It is my hope that this article explained how to get on your
way in creating a wonderful web-site. Alternatively, if you already have a
home site, then this essay may have given you many ideas on how to perfect it.
I'd be happy to hear about what you think of this article, your experience
with setting up a web site of your own, and may be able to evaluate your
present and future web sites.
So until then, happy web-authoring!

Links and More Information

Eric S. Raymond has written
the HTML Hell page,
which makes a pretty good read. Jakob
Nielsen's site about web usability has a lot of good advice. Especially of
note is his series
"the
worst Web design mistakes".
The "Joel on Software" site
an
excellent online book called "User Interface Design for Programmers". It's
a very recommended read and also incredibly amusing. Finally,
Michael Crawford
has written
a very
good essay about White Hat Search Engine Optimisation.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Sagiv Barhoom, to the Freenode IRC
network people b0at, cochi, intrr, Pete_I,
Windrose and kaitlyn, and to the OFTC IRC network's JasonF for commenting on earlier drafts of
this essay.

Footnotes

[Interesting Weblogs] - one note about weblogs - they should be both
interesting and as single-topic and specialised as possible. Hardly anyone
reads people's personal blogs, where they tell boring stories about their
life and friends. Such blogs are OK for family and friends, and feel free to
have one, but it shouldn't be your only blog.
If you want to write about several different topics, then start new blogs or
at least create separate categories with
separate web feeds.

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There are so many reasons to get cable TV in Contoocook, NH. Cable service is great for homes with multiple TVs and in Contoocook approximately 462 people have 4 or more. So you can understand why so many folks choose cable. Since 2006, DVR use has grown, now accounting for 7% of Americans' total watching time. Even with those rising numbers 1,161 Contoocook cable TV subscribers still enjoy regularly scheduled programming. Cable also provides high-speed Internet. In fact, 72% of Americans bundle their Internet and cable services. Additionally, about half of TV viewers in the U.S. stream some TV content online. In Contoocook that makes 1,007 residents who bundle their cable TV subscriptions and Internet packages, and 672 who use that Internet to stream TV content online.


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Fine art print on bright white, fine poly-cotton blend, matte canvas using latest generation Epson archival inks. Individually trimmed and hand stretched museum wrap over 1-1/2" deep wood stretcher bars. Includes wall hanging hardware.
Slab City, California. Taken with iPhone.
I been there recently - such a magical, creative place! When did you go there? Shouldn't you say "Near Slab City"? You got any more good shots within?
This was from July. I was also there Dec 2011 and Jan 2012. I have plenty more and am going there again this week.
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Please help support Space Venture by The Two Guys From Andromeda
OK, so I sincerely apologize to Scott & Mark for not sending this out earlier. Life has been so chaotic that I not only haven't had time to sleep but I haven't eaten either. You think I'd lose a bit of weight but NO!! LOL
Anyway, this is a heart felt plea to all of our backers to do yourselves a favor and throw at least $15 towards The Two Guys Kickstarter campaign. I can't say much about Mark, but I've known Scott since 1995 and him and I have been great friends. We've both been there for each other when times were tough and I don't plan on ever stopping. If you know Scott, then you know how hilarious he can be....and that's not even when he's trying!!
Anyway, thank you again to all our amazing fans, backers, and friends...you guys are the best. Hopefully we can make it a sunny day for Scott & Mark as well.
Until next time,
p.s. Irishmile said he's going to take my audio blogs and transcribe them so I can update my blog posts more often....thanks again Irish!!!
Creator Nicolas Hennemann on June 12, 2012
@Matthew Lenz
Confusing as fuck? Absolutely, but greedy? Hell no! Please explain what you find greedy about the tiers!
Creator Matthew Lenz on June 11, 2012
I think the way they did the pledge tiers is/was greedy. They won't get my money.
Creator Mike Haley on June 9, 2012
SpaceVenture Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que
Creator Phillip M. on June 9, 2012
Any word on when the survey for our stuff will come out?
Creator Alexander Scott on June 7, 2012
Stop it.. Stop trying to sell other stuff.. just stop
Creator Clint Parker on June 5, 2012
I just did so. Hope it makes it.
Creator Alan Luckachina - XSF\Team Meep\AGL589 on June 4, 2012
Thanks for helping spread the word! SpaceVenture will be a go, I am positive of it! :)
Creator Riggo on June 4, 2012
Thanks for the update Paul!!!
Creator Rick Hadsall on June 4, 2012
You should re-send this with the link to the project :-)
Creator matthias sweertvaegher on June 4, 2012
Irishmile, the transscripts would be very welcome, listening to audioblogs takes too much time for a guy like me (can't do 2 things ;))
Creator Kfir Ozer on June 4, 2012
thanks for letting me know about that project :) i miss space quest :) pledged.
Creator Erwin Shades Kiekens on June 4, 2012
I grew up with the SpaceQuest games (4 is my fave!)
So I backed this project as soon as i got wind of it :-)
Creator Jose Marcelino on June 4, 2012
Thank you for your word of support Paul, but oh does the hypocrisy run strong on this one.
ps - Maybe you should discuss your diet and sleep problems with a medical professional, not on a project update.
Creator H. Elwood Gilliland III on June 4, 2012
I backed them quite generously considering my wallet is already bleeding. I am wondering if the money will be transferred given the fast deadline on their KS campaign.
Creator Xyem on June 4, 2012
I don't think it is that people are fickle, I think it's more that people are different :)
Already backing these guys, but unfortunately it's not much as I don't have anything to spare. Got it on 'remind me' though so I can up it on the last day if I need to!
Creator Joseph P on June 4, 2012
Here's the Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que
Creator Joseph P on June 4, 2012
YES! Thank you Paul!
Creator Pedasn on June 4, 2012
thank you Paul for the update. lets get the Two Guys some funding
Link to the Kickstarter Page
Creator Junius Stone on June 4, 2012
Take this one to the stars with a smile....
Creator Nelson ☜☆☞Menacing Mop☜☆☞ Miguel on June 4, 2012
Thank you so much Paul!!! This means a lot!!! Please fellow Larry backers, help us out with as much as you can... Deadline is almost upon us and we're far from the goal...
Creator jfrisby on June 4, 2012
For anyone wondering -- these were the Two Guys that created the Space Quest series - www.tgakick.com
Creator Jan Van Nieuwenhove on June 4, 2012
Already pledged $275 !!
Creator Shay Weiss on June 4, 2012
I suspect most of the backers for this project already back the other project as well. I know that I + several friends are ^_^
Creator Kimberly Burgess on June 4, 2012
Done! $15 sent!
Creator Eric on June 4, 2012
@Kevin Wilson
I get the update fatigue that you feel, but to be fair, the Two Guys From Andromeda have posted a lot of concept art, (very) early prototypes, new tiers, etc., and other Kickstarters have only done some of those things. Jane Jensen's had 33 updates. I think it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Some people bitch when there are too many updates, other people bitch when there aren't enough. People are fickle.
Anyway, I really want the not-space-quest-for-legal-reasons-but-incredibly-similar-to-space-quest SpaceVenture to happen, so I hope those who also want to make that happen do so as soon as possible. Nail-biting, yikes!
Creator Matt Combes on June 4, 2012
Yep, I've pledged as well on both SpaceVenture and Tex Murphy, both worthy of being funded and made into great games. Please throw them both a little Larry love!
Creator Kahuna Kevin on June 4, 2012
BACKED!!! Space Quest 1 is one of those games that sticks with you forever. I have no doubt this project will surpass their past efforts! This game must be kickstarted!!!
Creator Mike Haley on June 4, 2012
Already backing them for $151. They must succeed. It has been ages since a funny space adventure. I, along with many others, will be very, very sad if they fail.
Creator Cycho on June 4, 2012
Wow, one of my most loved adventure series! PLEASE support this project, they really deserve it!!! SPACE QUEST rocks! Markus
Creator Ohverture on June 4, 2012
This is huge Paul, thank you, sincerely :)
Creator Jen Lee ~~~ Fedora Femme Fatales~~~ on June 4, 2012
Both 2 Guys and Tex Murphy need support, I've backed both, I hope others do as well!
Creator Tomimt on June 4, 2012
I have pledged to their project already and I really do hope, that other people would do it as well. It would be nice to see another adventure game to come into fruitation from the Two Guys.
Creator Kevin Wilson on June 4, 2012
I'm fine with supporting them, but I don't need a Kickstarter update every time thy blow their nose. This is your 25th update; they're on #32.
Creator Luke Stevenson on June 4, 2012
For anyone wanting a link to the project mentioned above - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que


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Docomo and Disney announce pair of Android devices, Mickey Mouse fans rejoice
This one is coming from Tokyo, as Docomo and Disney have announced two Android handsets, presumably aimed at Disney lovers. First, we have the Docomo F-08D, which will be packing
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Stunning, grand & stylish 5 bedroom beachfront villa has interiors by famed, contemporary South African designer. Quiet beachfront in pristine Watamu with spectacular ocean views from every floor. 3 story house also features a private 3-level pool (including shallow, shaded area for children); several lounge & dining areas; a sea-view work studio with surround of French doors; air-conditioned bedrooms, 3 with sea views; and full staff including cook. Watamu services & watersports a 5 minute drive away. Watamu 2nd best beach in Africa by CNN!
Watamu is an easy 1-hour flight from Nairobi, Kenya. 4 airlines service the Nairobi-Malindi route, and ...Read more
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"Home of the Sweet People" is what "Watamu" means in Swahili, but you'll find it's much, much more than friendly faces (of which there are many). Watamu is prized for its 5 km long powdery white sand beach (named the 2nd best beach in Africa by CNN Travel in 2012), warm coral-reefed lagoon exploding in a million shades of aqua, a rich tidal inlet rife with diversions, and its residential & relaxed atmosphere. Watamu has remained so pristine because it's actually a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and a 229 square km National Marine Park—designated as a place of "natural excellence", and we couldn't agree more.
This beach is free from commercialism, there are no "beach boys", no onshore fishing—just a peaceful, long stretch of blinding-white beach with pristine conditions most of the year. At low tide Heavenly has access to the full length of Turtle Bay, and at high tide a headland magically turns Heavenly into its own private cove.
Activities in Watamu abound. For water lovers, one can go snorkeling & scuba diving in the marine park; dolphin & whale watching; water skiing and wake boarding; kite surfing; stand-up paddle boarding; deep-sea fishing (we strongly encourage catch & release only); dhow sailing trips; and more. On land there is a new lovely, well kept 9-hole pitch & putt golf course; a reptile center (popular with kids); ancient ruins; exploring the largest coastal forest in East Africa; cycling; turtle watching; luxuriating at a nearby spa; and much more.
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