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I don't know, 260 characters per line isn't exactly the pinnacle of readable typography, and those screenshots become extremely confusing side by side against a white background – you can't tell where one ends and the next begins.

It seems they took a cue from http://motherfuckingwebsite.com when they maybe should have looked at http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com instead.

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Some people just don't care about how it looks as long it's readable (to a degree).

If you are not doing website design as a job, and you shun frameworks, and it's just your personal bit of space, then I don't see anything wrong with doing a 'Save As...' in Word and calling it 'index.html' (for example).

I too shun web-frameworks (as a hobbyist, you don't learn anything by using click-to-run frameworks), but the downside is: Is it worth spending hours cranking out a pretty layout, just for the 3 people who might accidentally read your site that month? No, not really.

But that's exactly what I wrote. It's not readable. It's hard to understand what these screenshots show because they appear to merge.

I hoped the two links would make my point – you just need to add two or three CSS declarations to make your raw HTML look nerdy and cool instead of obstinate. This is seconds, not hours of work: add a max-width and set your images to display block, maybe with a border so I can tell where it ends.

Nice one.