Just HTML

Yo!

This is a website made entirely out of HTML.
There's none of that CSS or Javascript fluff. Doesn't that feel great?
By the way, if you think I'm talking about inline CSS you're dead wrong.
It's just a good ol' black text on a white HTML page that doesn't take
ages to load.
No Javascript frameworks. No centering divs. Everything is HTML.
Just how it should be.

It's become all too common for people to start making personal websites
through static hosting sites like Neocities or Nekoweb.
Amazing as this is, these Neocities/Nekoweb sites just have too much going
on dude. Do you really need like a billion textures, four iframes, and a
12 MB soundtrack for each and every page? Personally I see that as a waste
of my bandwidth.

I really like personal websites because it is much more expressive than a
bio. Granted, you don't get the same level of network effect.

How I Made This

Anyways, I'll just cut to the chase and talk about how I made this site.

This site's HTML is made of primarily two parts:

  1. A <dialog closedby="none" open> for the main content.
  2. A <pre> for the ASCII background.

Allow me to explain the function of each one.

HTML Dialog

HTML's <dialog> is actually pretty cool. Ordinarily you'd use it as a pop-up
box. Without manually attaching the open attribute it stays hidden. So you can
show it later through some son of a bitch named Javascript.

However, we're not using that excuse of a language. In fact, we don't even really
use it as a pop-up either.

We use the HTML <dialog> element for its neat black borders and the unique
floating properties. Because it floats on top of the rest of the page, we can
add a background using-


HTML Pre

Wow, that perfectly brought us to our next point: the <pre> element.

Since the <dialog> is separated from the rest of the HTML's body, we can put
anything in the body and it will act as a cool background.

I chose to use some ASCII art that looks like a pattern. That's because I'm boring.

Dang, I'm running out of space. Okay, I'll wrap things up.

I hope that with this website, you can see that HTML is pretty competent and,
if you're crazy enough, beautiful.