Favicons and Site Icons for a Personal Website — Small Details That Make It Recognizable
A favicon looks like one of the smallest details on a personal website. It may occupy only sixteen pixels in a browser tab, yet its absence…
Site Search for a Personal Website — Helping Readers Find the Page They Remember
Some readers arrive through a search engine, read one page, and leave. Others remember a sentence months later and return, only to discover…
Print Stylesheets for a Personal Website — Making Pages Useful on Paper
Print Stylesheets for a Personal Website — Making Pages Useful on Paper A while ago, I printed one of my own articles and discovered that t…
A Website Colophon — Documenting How Your Personal Site Is Made
A Website Colophon — Documenting How Your Personal Site Is Made A personal website often grows one quiet decision at a time. You change the…
A Useful 404 Page for a Personal Website — Turning a Dead End into a Way Forward
A broken link feels small until it interrupts someone who was genuinely curious. They may have followed an old bookmark, mistyped a URL, or…
Sitemaps and robots.txt for a Personal Website — A Clear Map for Search Engines
When I first built a personal website, publishing felt like placing a small sign in front of a house: the page existed, the address worked,…
Website Accessibility — Building a Personal Site More People Can Actually Use
When I first built a personal website, accessibility felt like a specialist subject I could postpone until the design was finished. The pag…
Preventing Link Rot on a Personal Website — Keeping Old Pages Useful
Every personal website eventually becomes a small museum. An old tutorial still receives visitors, a bookmarked essay keeps circulating, an…
Privacy-Friendly Website Analytics — Measure What Matters Without Tracking Everyone
When I first added analytics to a personal website, the dashboard felt like a control room: maps, funnels, sessions, devices, and dozens of…
Microformats2 for a Personal Website - Making Your Pages Understandable to Machines
When I first added an RSS feed and Webmentions to a personal website, the pages looked exactly the same to human visitors. Under the surfac…