The most minimal site ever?

Posted by Jaan on January 2nd, 2010 | 2 comments

How few web page components can a site or blog get away with using, and still be functional? Put another way, how minimal can a site be? These questions are part of a project I’m working on right now. The first (barely) visible deliverables – a demo – of it went live on elevatic.com today (on a demo URL).

Right now, this is how achingly “most minimal” the site is…

The site’s name is only visible in the browser, not on any of the pages.

The only subscription option is the feed icon in the URL field (Chrome is a challenge here…)

No post date

No title

No author

No tags

No categories

The favicon is a white square

The date, title, author, and category are visible in most feed readers, which is part of the idea. We’re moving much of the display of data to other apps than the browser, while making the browser based web experience very clean and hopefully enjoyable.

There are still a few hurdles to overcome before  launch, but for now it’s all systems go behind the scenes. If the project gets the final go-ahead it will most likely have a soft launch in March and be fully live and functional in its minimal glory in April.