Must have
D3 js graphs
Light color palette
Hover and scroll graph
RHS “Footnotes” (can this be done using only CSS?)
windmill / badges in the footer
breadcrumbs
Only WEBP images if any
low cost/budget – whether thats hosting, fonts, or plugins for wp
breadcrumbs
Nice to have
Uploaded fonts, not system fonts
Search functionality (some kind of static index)
title minimizes on scroll with anchored points (context nav)
Find out more
Minified js and css
Only queue js scripts on certain blocks or pages where they are called
De-enqueue certain WP functions
wordpress snippets to reduce page load
Disable unused blocks on the editor like ones I won’t need for the time being 1
Green hosting
Caching
Maybe switch themes to susty wordpress
And then, I spent the next few days just building the website locally, noting some things I learned along the way
Flytrap and next steps
external links don’t work when you click on them in the text
graph overview doesn’t link or can be interacted with2