This text appears to be a minimal and boring plaintext website. Fine. But it is also a way to test out various 'minimal' style schema.
This would be a quote someone once said. A Blockquote, if you will.
I am doing this because I want to have a minimal, attractive, eminently readable site that would still attract an audience, can be scanned, and be (as much as possible) resilient to the brittleness of the web browser.
We have them. Here's a dithered low resolution image of a book, sharing a design sensibility with this webpage design and a goal of enabling longterm archiving. When we're talking about considering longterm preservation then websites and books can and should go hand in hand!
Okay, but why the low resolution? This can also be considered a form af accessibility as a lower resolution may mean lower file size which means this can be downloaded quicker, use less bandwdith and compute resources, and thus is more accessible for a wider community on slower connections and a rebuke too the high-intensity web apps and frameworks of today.
I left the size of this one a bit larger to test how the different stylesheets will handle it
For the Low Tech Website they discuss how the low res image helps clue the viewer into something different going on. This may be a reason to pursue this approach, since the new (and Google-initiated?) webp format is a lower filesize than the jpeg lossy filesize for example, thus potentially removing some of the size goals of creating a lower consumption/bandwidth website
Advantages of a minimal style
Ideally I use and create open source styles that are still attractive to an audience who doesn't care about any of these above concerns but will gain the advantages nonetheless!
One last consideration. Does this work well on phones? Try it and see.