How We Brought
David to Digital Life

ExploreDavid.com is the result of a full-stack web development effort led by Lucio Valerio Carucci, with a clear focus on performance, accessibility, and modern web standards. The project was built using static HTML5, CSS3, and vanilla JavaScript to ensure maximum compatibility across all browsers and devices. The layout is based on a responsive design that adapts smoothly to desktop and mobile viewports, leveraging media queries and a grid-flex hybrid system for layout control. The overall styling was handled through a custom CSS file with minimal reliance on external frameworks to reduce page load times.

The site is hosted via GitHub Pages, which offers both static content delivery and free HTTPS with automatic certificate renewal. A custom domain—ExploreDavid.com—was registered and connected to GitHub Pages using DNS configuration. This involved setting up A records pointing to GitHub’s IP addresses and configuring a CNAME file inside the repository root to ensure consistent domain mapping. DNS propagation was monitored and verified using external tools to ensure the domain resolved correctly from global locations.

SEO considerations were built into the site’s architecture from the ground up. Each page contains descriptive <title>, <meta name="description">, and <meta name="viewport"> tags, optimized for search engine indexing and social media previews. The robots.txt file and a correctly formatted sitemap.xml were created and submitted to Google Search Console to facilitate indexing by search engines. Clean and semantic HTML structure—using <header>, <nav>, <main>, <section>, and <footer> tags—ensures crawlability and accessibility.

Navigation was manually implemented without the use of client-side routing, to avoid unnecessary dependencies. Each page is pre-rendered and stored as a separate HTML file, including index.html, download-stl.html, how-it-works.html, sharing-the-vision.html, and creators.html (team page). The navbar is static across pages, manually maintained to reflect active states using class toggling. Icons were added using Font Awesome, integrated via a CDN link for performance, and each icon is wrapped with aria-label spans to improve accessibility.

Interactive elements, like the embedded Sketchfab viewer, were inserted using iframe containers, with their dimensions optimized through inline CSS and responsive wrappers to maintain aspect ratios. No third-party analytics or cookies are used, ensuring fast performance and a privacy-friendly design.

Every component of the front-end was hand-coded and manually structured to ensure full control over layout, responsiveness, and browser behavior. No site builder, CMS, or automated framework was used—only clean markup, custom styling, and purposeful design choices. This allowed for precise tuning of margins, loading times, and responsive behavior across devices.

ExploreDavid.com is more than just a website—it's a carefully engineered digital platform. Every line of code, every DNS record, and every browser behavior was directly managed, tested, and deployed by Lucio Valerio Carucci to ensure not just a clean user experience, but a technically sound and future-ready platform.