About Qwwwik
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Who Me is:
I am Patrick Taylor. I was a professional architect and public sector property services manager for more than 25 years and I am now retired. I built my first website in 1998 and have continued ever since. From the year 2000 onwards I built websites professionally but I have given that up as too much hassle for the money. I built an online shop selling French glassware for a few years. It was profitable but again too much hassle. I installed WordPress in about 2006 and soon decided it was a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Too much hassle!
What Qwwwik is:
So I have built this 'CMS' system for making websites online. Nice and simple, the way I like things. This system originates to 2008 as 'Le CMS' and became 'La Plume Micro CMS' then 'superMicro CMS' and is now Qwwwik (2024). That is sixteen years of development. I still maintain superMicro CMS but probably won't taking it much further. I will with Qwwwik (as needs be).
View Qwwwik v2.2 out of the box »
The main design principle is now single-column, as most of the visits to my websites are now on mobile phones. On a desktop or laptop computer the column-width is about 75-85 characters of text – generally considered to be the upper limit for readability. It is wide enough for images, especially using the 'modal' image option. On a mobile, everything should collapse nicely.
To simplify things further I have abandoned a menu as such. A perfectly fine menu can be made as a 'menu' page, like info on this website. Actually I think it's better.
Qwwwik is supplied with only one theme: the one you are looking at now. Plain but with splashes of colour.
The main style sheet can be edited to make a completely different theme but there doesn't seem much point (apart from maybe changing some colours or using a different font than Open Sans). Choose a dark background or a light background or change the link colour but there isn't much else to play with. It doesn't matter much on mobiles anyway.
The focus of any further development will be speed, efficiency and further simplicity without losing essential functionality. Plus of course the world wide web is constantly moving forward technically and in user expectation. The simpler something is, the simpler it is to adapt it.