https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/tags/html/Recent content in html on James AlvarezHugoen-gbWed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/blog/my-new-website-and-blog/Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/blog/my-new-website-and-blog/<p>Inspired by <a href="https://adactio.com/articles/17701">this</a> and <a href="https://colly.com/articles/this-used-to-be-our-playground">this</a> (both sourced from <a href="https://adactio.com">Adactio’s website</a> who I sometimes play irish folk music with!) I spent some of my christmas holiday redoing my personal website and blog. It used to be a minimal effort wordpress 'jobby' with an off the shelf theme, and a number of plugins to do things that would take me 10 minutes to do in raw html. Whilst Wordpress is an incredible piece of software, I got annoyed by a number of things: the spam, the loading times, the visual clutter, constantly having to update, the vague sense of being bombarded by bots looking to hack the site and the <em>incessant</em> spam. So I decided to make my blog again without any frameworks. The benefits of not using are framework for me are:</p>