--- title: Rich Content Website Lean Content Website | daily.dev description: Most technical content websites are too lean to effectively communicate complex ideas, largely because Markdown and its ecosystem made it easy to build... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rich-content-website-lean-content-website-mlv4hi5gg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Rich Content Website Lean Content Website | daily.dev og:description: Most technical content websites are too lean to effectively communicate complex ideas, largely because Markdown and its ecosystem made it easy to build... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rich-content-website-lean-content-website-mlv4hi5gg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MlV4hI5gG.png og:image:alt: Rich Content Website Lean Content Website og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Rich Content Website Lean Content Website **[Rodrigo Pombo](https://daily.dev/sources/pomb)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Most technical content websites are too lean to effectively communicate complex ideas, largely because Markdown and its ecosystem made it easy to build text-only sites. Drawing on Media Richness Theory, the author argues that richer, more expressive web content is needed for technical topics — and introduces Code Hike as a tool aimed at enabling richer content experiences on the web. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [nh3.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/nh3-dev-fsykz8tgx) · Lobsters · 4 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#markdown](https://daily.dev/tags/markdown) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/rich-content-website-lean-content-website-mlv4hi5gg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Rich Content Website Lean Content Website","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/rich-content-website-lean-content-website-mlv4hi5gg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/rich-content-website-lean-content-website-mlv4hi5gg"},"datePublished":"2026-03-31T12:29:51.886Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T12:56:14.301Z","description":"Most technical content websites are too lean to effectively communicate complex ideas, largely because Markdown and its ecosystem made it easy to build...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c7f765493b454e047969efe3bb7fff76?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c7f765493b454e047969efe3bb7fff76?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Rodrigo Pombo","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Rodrigo Pombo","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/logos/placeholder.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/pomb"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/rich-content-website-lean-content-website-mlv4hi5gg","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"webdev,career,markdown","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rodrigo Pombo","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/pomb"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Rich Content Website Lean Content Website"}]} ```