Smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair, Ines Akrap, wearing a ribbed, long-sleeve pink top against a plain white background.

The web doesn't need more features. It needs better foundations.

Built like it's 1991. Enhanced like it's 2026.

This site is how I believe web should look like

It starts with what every user actually needs: readable content, clear structure, and fast delivery. It builds up from there based on your device, connection, and preferences.

No assumptions about your hardware, your network, or how much visual richness you actually want.

The preferences panel in the top right is where you take control. Enhancement level, motion, theme, font size. Your choices, stored in your browser, applied on every page load. Click the cog and try it out.

There is a whole community of people who lost sleep over this. Who spent years defining what good looks like.

How we should build a Web that actually works. For everyone. Without waste.

I am honored to be a co-chair of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group, the community behind the Web Sustainability Guidelines.

93 guidelines describing exactly that. What responsible, sustainable web development looks like across every layer of the stack, from infrastructure to front-end delivery to content.

For over 10 years, I have been that person in the room advocating for this. The one slowing down to ask if we really need that dependency. The one flagging the 26 third-party scripts nobody owns. The engineer who genuinely believes that how we build matters.

I can talk about this for a while...

So I did. I recorded myself, transcribed it, and turned it into a manuscript that the Apress copy team is turning into an actual book: Building the Sustainable Web.

I am pretty nervously excited to get it into your hands.

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