City klippet

This was my first commercial project. It is a very simple website Pretty much all HTML and CSS with at max 20 lines of JS. I could try to argue that is the best way to build a website of this type of nature and while there might be some benefits to it that's not the reason for that choice. The truth is that me and my two friends that made this website didn't know anything at the time. We made this within in the first three months of our first web dev course in senior high school. While there are some performance benefits with this approach like simply being able to statically cache all the files on a CDN for fast load times anywhere in the world. The problem was that we had not learnt anything about performance optimization and the fact that the website loads an unminimized 600 line file of css. Even with the perfomarnce and some accessibility issues I have a lot to owe to this website. It is what got my foot in the door with website development and deployment. It exposed me to important aspects like hosting, dns and domains. It also gave me a solid foundation to continue learning and building on to with more technologies.

If the site were to rebuilt and improved on the big thing would probably be improving the design. But some major performance improvements could be made with image optimization and css minimization. Another ease of life addition would also be using a CMS for editing page content. Overall the project was a very good and memorable learning experience.