{"id":4148,"date":"2019-03-13T22:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2019-03-13T22:18:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:18:24","slug":"another-day-another-low-tech-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2019\/03\/another-day-another-low-tech-website.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Day, Another Low-tech Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

French designer and researcher Gauthier Roussilhe was inspired by our solar powered website<\/a> and built a low-tech website himself, documenting the process in detail<\/a> (and in English). It’s a great work, and there’s some interesting differences with our solar powered blog.<\/p>\n

First, Roussilhe built his site with a user friendly content management system (Kirby<\/a>), which is then converted into a static website. Compared to our approach, this makes it easier to build a light-weight website for those who are accustomed to working with WordPress.<\/p>\n

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Second, the designer also tackles his videos, which are hosted on Vimeo and Youtube, and manages to reduce their “weight” by 75%. This is a major contribution, because video takes up the largest share of internet traffic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s his own conclusion:<\/p>\n

If we take stock: I reduced the weight of my site by 10, the average weight of a page by more than 3 and I reduced the weight of my videos on third-party services by 4. I have a site extremely simple to administrate, very light so very fast, which consumes very little electricity and therefore emits little GHG.<\/p>\n

The site also follows all the canons of today’s digital design: mobile-first, accessibility, loading speed. In fact it is quite surprising to realize that structural limitations (weight \/ energy) lead to navigation experiences much more accessible to all audiences regardless of their equipment, their connection or their imperative motricity or vision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more: Digital guide to low tech<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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