psa: making your site mobile friendly is pretty easy actually

i know that some people relish in their site being desktop only as a hearkening back to the myspace and geocities days or a rejection or convenience or smartphones or something, but imo a responsibility attached to having a website is to make the thing at least somewhat accessible to people in different situations. "optimised for desktop" normally means "i expect you to be looking at this on a 1920 x 1080 display and the site will be nigh-unusable if you want to do something crazy like put your browser side by side with another program on your one screen. it also can cause issues for people viewing your site on an ultrawide or high-resolution display, although most of the templates that the average small webber use handle this with a maximum width. anyway! i thought i'd just do a tiny intro to how i organise my page elements to handle the different displays that visitors might be using first and foremost, you can check out my website's source code here - i use 11ty to speed up the…