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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta
charset="utf-8"><meta
name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Better Motherfucking Website</title><style type="text/css">body{margin:40px
auto;max-width:650px;line-height:1.6;font-size:18px;color:#444;padding:0
10px}h1,h2,h3{line-height:1.2}</style></head><body><header><h1>This is <em>still</em> a motherfucking website.</h1>
<aside>And it's more fucking perfect than the last guy's.</aside>
</header><h2>Seriously, it takes minimal fucking effort to improve this shit.</h2><p><strong>7 fucking declarations.</strong></p><p>That's how much CSS it took to turn that <a
href="http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/">grotesque pile of shit</a> into this easy-to-read masterpiece. It's so fucking simple and it <em>still</em> has all the glory of the original perfect-ass website:</p><ul><li>Shit's <em>still</em> lightweight and loads fast</li><li><em>Still</em> fits on all your shitty screens</li><li><em>Still</em> looks the same in all your shitty browsers</li><li>The motherfucker's <em>still</em> accessible to every asshole that visits your site</li><li>Shit's <em>still</em> legible and gets your fucking point across</li></ul><h3>And guess what, motherfucker:</h3><p>You never knew it, but it's easy to improve readability on your site. Here's how.</p><h2>Let it breathe</h2><p>Look at lines 1 and 2 of some shitty website you're building. Assuming they're not married they probably shouldn't be humping. The defaults are trash -- pick a minimum <code>line-height: 1.4</code> for body copy. Headings should be tighter. If you can't see that...piss off.</p><p>If your text hits the side of the browser, fuck off forever. You ever see a book like that? Yes? What a shitty book.</p><h2>A little less contrast</h2><p>Black on white? How often do you see that kind of contrast in real life? Tone it down a bit, asshole. I would've even made this site's background a nice <code>#EEEEEE</code> if I wasn't so focused on keeping declarations to a lean 7 fucking lines.</p><h2>Size Matters</h2><p>I know your partner says otherwise, but it's true. Bump that body copy to render close to 16px or more. Smaller type works well for print, not the screen.</p><h2>Line-width, motherfucker</h2><p>Looking at an LCD screen is strainful enough. Don't make me read a line of text that's 200 fucking characters long. Keep it to a nice 60-80 and users might actually read more than one sentence of your worthless dribble.</p><h3>Yes, this is <em>also</em> fucking satire, you fuck</h3><p>I love what the creator of <a
href="http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/">this site's inspiration</a> did. What I'm saying is that it's so, so simple to make sites easier to read. Websites are broken by default, they are functional, high-performing, and accessible, but they're also fucking ugly. You and all the other web designers out there need to make them not total shit.</p><blockquote>"You're a fucking moron if you use default browser styles."
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- Eleanor Roosevelt</blockquote><hr><h2>Epilogue</h2><p>Inspired by the geniuses behind <a
href="http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/">motherfuckingwebsite.com</a> and <a
href="http://txti.es">txti</a>.</p><p>This page—that isn't a total fucking eyesore—was created by <a
href="https://twitter.com/drew_mc">me</a> with help from <a
href="https://twitter.com/gabehammersmith">him</a>. <script>(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');ga('create','UA-46163202-2','auto');ga('send','pageview');</script> </body></html>
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