{"id":4098,"date":"2018-07-07T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T19:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2018-07-07T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T19:54:28","slug":"this-amazing-new-web-tool-lets-you-create-microsites-that-exist-solely-as-urls-the-verge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/07\/this-amazing-new-web-tool-lets-you-create-microsites-that-exist-solely-as-urls-the-verge\/","title":{"rendered":"This amazing new web tool lets you create microsites that exist solely as URLs – The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Very cool! And highly useful for some things.<\/p>\n

Former Google designer Nicholas Jitkoff, who\u2019s now the vice president of design at Dropbox, has created a really nifty new web tool he\u2019s calling itty bitty sites, or self-contained microsites that exist solely as URLs. You can create your own by following this URL: itty.bitty.site. From there, you can fill the equivalent of about one printed 8.5 x 11-inch page with any combination of plain text, ASCII characters, or emojis. The actual byte limit depends on where you\u2019d like to share it; Twitter and Slack allow for around 4,000 bytes, while the Mac version of Chrome can accommodate up to 10,000 bytes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The site isn\u2019t actually hosted anywhere \u2014 the entirety of the webpage exists as a URL compressed using what\u2019s known as the Lempel\u2013Ziv\u2013Markov chain algorithm. In an explanation page for itty bitty sites \u2014 stored, of course, as an itty bitty site \u2014 Jitkoff says this allows for a \u201csignificant reduction in size for HTML, and allows for a printed page worth of content in many cases.\u201d From there, the compressed content is converted from binary into a string of characters that can function as a standard web link. The actual data is stored in the end of the link, comprised of everything after the # symbol. You can also share itty bitty sites as QR codes as well, so long as the site can be compressed into about 2,610 bytes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: This amazing new web tool lets you create microsites that exist solely as URLs – The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very cool! And highly useful for some things. Former Google designer Nicholas Jitkoff, who\u2019s now the vice president of design at Dropbox, has created a really nifty new web tool he\u2019s calling itty bitty sites, or self-contained microsites that exist solely as URLs. You can create your own by following this URL: itty.bitty.site. From there, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-146","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}