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Made a couple of themes for my static site generator (mkws)

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  1. adi
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    Please provide feedback and tell me what other kind of themes you would like to see!

    Please provide feedback and tell me what other kind of themes you would like to see!

    2 votes
  2. [6]
    skybrian
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    I think the max width of 640px is too narrow for desktop nowadays. It looks okay on a tablet, but on desktop, it results in very wide margins unless I'm using a rather narrow browser window. Maybe...

    I think the max width of 640px is too narrow for desktop nowadays. It looks okay on a tablet, but on desktop, it results in very wide margins unless I'm using a rather narrow browser window. Maybe there's a way to use horizontal space better and reduce vertical space when the window is wider?

    I also looked at the front page and it loads very slowly. Looking at network performance, I think it's the images, which take a long time to start loading even though they aren't very big. Zooming in to 150%, the front page looks better to me. Though at that zoom level, the images are too blurry; they should be higher resolution.

    Deploying on Netlify or something like that would probably speed it up a lot.

    2 votes
    1. [4]
      Wes
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      Yeah, it feels like the server itself is quite slow. Very high TTFB. A CDN would help, but @adi you might consider a better host in general. https://www.webpagetest.org/result/220903_BiDc6H_98W/...

      Yeah, it feels like the server itself is quite slow. Very high TTFB. A CDN would help, but @adi you might consider a better host in general.

      https://www.webpagetest.org/result/220903_BiDc6H_98W/

      The images are sized correctly and are webp, so you think they'd be small, but some are still 17KB for some reason. Maybe the compression level was a little too lenient when converting those. But I think that's incidental, and the server is mostly just struggling with new connections.

      2 votes
      1. adi
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        Thanks! I'll look into the slowness issue! Thanks for for the https://www.webpagetest.org/ link, didnt know about it!

        Thanks! I'll look into the slowness issue! Thanks for for the https://www.webpagetest.org/ link, didnt know about it!

        1 vote
      2. [2]
        adi
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        Which CDN provider would you recommend?

        Which CDN provider would you recommend?

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        1. chromakode
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          Fastly and BunnyCDN are both great choices.

          Fastly and BunnyCDN are both great choices.

          1 vote
    2. adi
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      I'll be looking into the slowness issue! Thanks! Regarding the sizes, it's a matter of preference, you can easily change that. These are just simple starter themes all add more themes!

      I'll be looking into the slowness issue! Thanks! Regarding the sizes, it's a matter of preference, you can easily change that. These are just simple starter themes all add more themes!

      2 votes