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Styling webpages

=> https://lobste.rs/s/akcw1m/opinionated_list_best_practices_for#c_xkhd6g

Textual websites don’t need fancy styles because styles aren’t a significant part of their content.

Where is the line drawn, however?

Here’s two screenshots from my blog, with styling (amended yesterday after some tinkering based on discussion here) and without:

=> https://imgur.com/gallery/LPMYrX7

(I’ve also added the page as rendered via w3m)

Note that I have semantic markup:

    .h1 Blog title
        .h2 Date
            .h3 Post title

but I visually de-emphasize the date using CSS. I also remove link styling from the titles, because there’s a convention that titles are links to their respective levels.

Styling also adds nice margins, etc.

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