Keep it simplest. Or about simple sites

To begin with, I just had a need to make a website with textual information. It was necessary to do something simple, but not forgetting about mobile devices, which are increasingly walking around the sites.

An obvious option would be to jot down the main markup, define the doctype and leave the browsers to work on styling. But this is a very lazy method, which gives a result that puzzles the future visitor of such a page. I would like at least a basic styling of titles and links, some kind of simple structure.

So the next step was to view the finished options on the network.
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Search

Templates for CMS are not suitable, if only because CMS will not. And such templates are often designed for more complex sites. And they will not please visitors with mobile devices.

Although, now there are templates with adaptive markup (responsive design), which caused my interest. Unfortunately, most of the solutions found were paid, which is not surprising, given the amount of work that their authors do.


The search for free options leads to the basic templates, which are designed with the expectation that you yourself will make your design based on their code.

Here it became possible to formulate the requirements that I had for the desired solution:

• Ease of work
• The presence of a basic design
• Adaptability of markup for mobile devices
• Better to be on HTML5
• Free

Decision

Then the thought came that such a tool for creating simple websites may not be necessary for me alone. Within a few days I collected the template, created several variants of the themes and laid it all out on GitHub for download.

Simpliste - the name that came by itself. Here is what the template offers:

• CMS is not required, it is just HTML code.
• The markup is created by simple blocks, which are not too many, so you won’t get confused (three, two or one columns are possible). Ready classes are for most situations.
• Reset from HTML5 boilerplate gives a stable appearance in different browsers.
• HTML5 and CSS3. You can download HTML5 Shiv from a Google server (this is only for IE). No other scripts are connected to the template.
• There are several themes. All themes are created without using image files.
• Adaptability to the width of the browser. On mobile devices, columns will turn into a vertical block of articles, CSS classes will provide for this automatically.

On the Simpliste website you can see the template.

You can download the archive directly.

For those interested, a link to the project page on Gitkhab .

Total

If you need to quickly put some information into the network, do it in an aesthetically acceptable form, do not forget about mobile browsers and spend a minimum of time, then you should pay attention to Simpliste.

A basic understanding of HTML is enough to build a structure. There are several completely neutral themes (they will be more if there is an interest in the audience). The entire site on the template will initially require only 3 files to download: html, css and favicon.

upd. At the request of users added a license. This is a MIT license , only without the requirement to include copies of the license when distributing, and so on. In short: free to use, modify, distribute. Backlink is voluntary.

upd2 Getting started on creating themes: habrahabr.ru/blogs/webdev/136424