Chapter 02 · Building for permanence
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What stays the same

  1. 1

    Words outlast platforms

    A permalink at your own domain still resolves in twenty years. Syndicated copies will not.

  2. 2

    Links are the web’s memory

    A plain blue underline. No tracking, no redirects. That is the whole contract.

  3. 3

    Design for the reader alone

    One column, comfortable measure, nothing between the sentence and the eye.

  4. 4

    Your name, your archive

    The about page isn’t branding. It’s saying I was here, this is what I made.

This is the IndieWeb / Personal Site design system, applied by Curio Design — a design-style library for AI agents. Full IndieWeb / Personal Site guide → designbycurio.com/learn/indie-web-personal-site-2014