Hello, This is my first website and I want some feedback from you guys. It’s very basic and I haven’t added much. just wanted to host something so I threw invidious and whoogle instance there. My ISP doesn’t provide a static IP so I had to host it on tor :( what else do you think I should host there? server spec: 15 year old computer with i3 first gen cpu.
Edit: Here is the URL if you want to visit the website: ot6ewcgzioleglf2jp2iofludol3hw5gcaycaj7n5tolf6wcu7ofbzid.onion
If you use cloudflare, there’s a docker container to update your sites DNS records to your current dynamic IP (also cloudflare is good ddos protection) https://github.com/oznu/docker-cloudflare-ddns
Cool but needs more contrast, it’s impossible to read for the visually impaired.
i disagree with the color of the text. too much contrast. may I suggest it being dark blue?
I like my users to have an interactive experience where they have to select the text in order to read it
I prefer to encourage active reading, by forcing them to move the mouse along as they read.
Change the select colour for even better experience like some sites do! Now you are left with inspecting the element in your browser :)
It’s beautiful. Plus FOSS services let’s go!
It needs an “Under construction” animated gif
Plain old static HTML is fine, and you can host it on a potato! Here are some design tips to keep it easy to read. None of them are objectively correct, and you are already doing some of them. They are just some suggestions as you move forward:
- Don’t use dark-on-dark fonts. Use near-black on off-white or at least something high contrast.
- Break up content using horizontal rules <hr> and various headers <h1> You can style both of them in css. This keeps things easy to find and read.
- Generally, do not center-align text if it is more than one line. If you need to display blocks of text side-by-side, put each in a container then left-align the text within those containers.
- Use a bigger font than you think is strictly necessary.
- My preference is to use sans-serif fonts. Google makes some good free ones. Sometimes I’ll go back and make titles serif only.
- Resize and compress your images. A bit higher resolution than you need but with lower quality is usually better than the reverse (for jpegs)</h1>
make titles serif only
I don’t want to question your aesthetic choices but I think it hurts readability.
Surprisingly, I can’t find that made as an actual usable font. I would have thought someone in font design would jump at the chance just for the fun of it.
Looks fine for your first website! I would change the colour of the text, though. Black on another dark colour is kinda harder to read. You can catch these problems by opening Firefox Dev Tools (F12), going to the Accessibility tab, and changing “Check for issues” to “Contrast”. It’ll list all the elements that have too low a contrast ratio.
For ip thing you should be able to use CloudFare Tunnel free service, works with dynamic IPs and without opening ports
That said do not ask me for help, I haven’t used it.
It’s great with subdomains, I don’t think it works on root Domains but it’s still extremely easy to set up.
I would recommend forcing HTTPS as well as creating a Page Rule enforcing strict SSL.
I can confirm it works on root domains.
For the IP issue: You can look into some service which automatically updates your domains DNS. It’s been a while but back then one of those was DynDNS, not sure if they still exist, but others surely do.
I forgot to mention that I am also behind CGNAT. I bought a VPS for a while but couldn’t keep with the cost. Right now the cheapest way of hosting a website for me is through tor.
