Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

This is a tangent to this post, but...

I happen to have a cat named Kiki who looks rather like the mascot for this project. Her health is failing, now. I just spent the night on my living room floor next to her. I'll, likely have to put her down, today.

I might use this project to make a memorial page for her.

https://ibb.co/7dRCnWrp https://ibb.co/1GWwDKLY

I wish we could get back to a “mom and pop” software market. Itch.io feels like it’s doing a lot of work for indie software that used to just be everywhere and easy to stumble onto.

> kiki is shareware.

Now that is a blast from the past.

Is much else distributed that way these days?

PHP was and still is the best.

"It's built so that if something looks wrong, you can change it yourself without spending hours reading tutorials and watching coding videos"

Does anyone do this? Every none coder I know just has llms build everything for them - can't imagine why they'd be looking up coding tutorials for a homepage.

Should have been written with bouba philosophy.

> kiki was built around the idea that the web took a wrong turn a couple of decades ago. HTML was supposed to be simple and straightforward

Hear, hear. We need more of this kind of courage to start over from first principles.

Reminds me of a time when my homepage (before lj blog) was using cmsimple. BTW, c still exists. Not sure if it is still "simple" tho.

https://www.cmsimple.org/en/

Kiki's themes can be edited to suit one's personal tastes. The theme .css files are about 120 lines long.

The design philosophy says you should be able to repair your own tools, but this is closed source proprietary software.

Cute page, but does not walk the walk.

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