The majority of my layouts are plain text, HTML tables and forms, and some SVG charts spruced up with a little bit of JS if it's enabled (everything should still work without it).
Performance is fast and it looks modern enough so long as I use modern CSS and some reactive design, but makes people feel at home because it doesn't FEEL like big tech.
I am looking for extremely small seed-level funding so I can continue to build out the site full-time until I am able to sell it to the large number of prospective customers I have (this summer, sailing doesn't happen in the Chicago winter).
There is a typo on https://regatta.page/team:
> Former Software Engineer at Fortune 100 Financial Serivices Company
Related tangent: https://gd.css is a great little tag-only CSS reset alternative with a minimalist vibe.
A lot of websites from that era are unusable from mobile phones. Whatever your business or marketing strategy, there's a significant chance the first time a new customer clicks on a link to your webpage, he's doing so from a mobile phone.
I sometimes wonder if launching a new B2C startup that provides utility, but that doesn't look that good or modern, might succeed not just in spite of the lack of attention to design, but because of it.
I'm talking 1996-2002 era tables and gifs. Nothing fancy.
Would consumers trust it?
Would the usability be greater or worse if it was just plain HTML?