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And people could not resist the urge to add styling and heterogeneous layouts all over. Weird typography, layouts, alignments and extra padding here and there.

A secret reason why I like to push markdown workflows is that you can't deviate from the site's overall look and feel. Focus on your content, hit publish and it will look good. Even if we change the site's look down the road, the content is still going to be fine.

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I miss all that weird styling :(

It gave the internet character and flaws. Now it feels like everyone limits themselves to publishing nothing but perfect images of themselves.

<marquee> tag is awesome and noone can tell me otherwise.

Thanks for the warning, I won't try to tell you otherwise hahaha! Besides, if you like marquees who am I to say you're wrong!? I have exactly 0 design or taste bones in my body and think lime green text on a blue background is the pinnacle of human beauty.

I agree!

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Site creation tools that encourage freeform styling are great, especially if they make it easier than rolling your own HTML/CSS.

For example:

https://build.mmm.page/

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