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What we see in our websites (and why I am so excited about the web), jamesg.blog, 13 April 2025:
My excitement is cautiously placed. There are undoubtably challenge presents both today and ahead, among them: how do we keep the principles behind the web alive in all generations? Here, “generations” may refer to a period even as much as five years. The web is so new and changing so fast. Trends change.
There is no one answer to the question of keeping the principles behind the web alive, and, more broadly, encouraging more people to start websites. It’s a hard question. But, amid all of this, I cannot help but be encouraged by how many people I have seen start websites.
Everyone should start a website! It's fun. It's as easy as it has been for twenty years, I think, which means either completely complicated and confusing and expensive, or pretty straight-forward and achievable by anyone who understands what a computer file is. Depends on who you ask.
I'm interested at the moment in how web apps (like WordPress or MediaWiki or whatever) are installed, and how easy we make that. It does seem that the "copy a zip file to a server, unzip it, and edit a config file" paradigm is still alive and well and really quite accessible to lots of people. Doing it 'properly' discounts that workflow, I think, and that's a bit of a shame.
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