the switch is the markup · no script, works offline and in an archive ← back to the site
ONE 3COL PAGE · WHAT ARRIVES BUILT ONE 3COL PAGE · TOP TO BOTTOM GENERATED FOR YOU WHAT YOU BRING SITE-UNIQUE SITE NAME · WHAT IT IS The title of this one site WHAT THIS IS One paragraph that says what the site is for, and one example you can go and look at. free to host · nothing to hack · works on any device · you own it The picture, and its caption at 22 px — often the only line a scanner reads Everything inside this band changes from site to site. Nothing else does. A Plain answers B Sources C How it works Search this page… Phone view Save as PDF Dark the controls are standard too — each one its own small script THRESHOLD Below is standard on every GYRO site 3COL STANDARD A on B on C on the reader turns any column off · the markup is the setting, so no script is involved A PLAIN ANSWERS Questions a reader actually asks, each one closed until it is opened. + What is GYRO Pages? + Who is it for? + What does it cost? + Is it secure? + Do I really own it? + How do I change the words later? + What if this all disappears? plain → more detailed B SOURCES Two blocks, always in this order, worded the same on every site. INTERNAL LINKS The two most recent content changes. EXTERNAL LINKS Every reference to some other website. 1 number and kind 2 title 3 provenance — who, when, what license 4 preview — what you would find there 5 why it is cited — in THIS page 6 the link, last and only last one register throughout — it does not deepen a numeral in A or C lands on its card · Back returns you to it C HOW IT WORKS Prior know-how is assumed, and more of it is assumed as you go down. The shape — one file, four scripts Why the sources sit in the middle The anatomy of a source card Link health, done honestly Security: nothing to attack Typography · print · accessibility Failures recorded in building this assumed know-how → more technical 7 4 THREE RENDERINGS wide · narrow · printed — one markup, nothing duplicated WHAT THE THREE COLORS MEAN green — structure gold — the column keys, and where you are red — citations, and whatever a click just reached a dead link turns gray and is struck through THE WHOLE THING 1 HTML file · 4 scripts · 35–100 KB the four: phone-view, top-button, back-link, search no framework, no build step, no database drop one and only its control goes Everything in blue arrives built, the same on every GYRO site. What is left is what you bring: a name, a paragraph, your answers, which sources, a picture.