Colophon
How this website is produced and maintained
This website was designed and built by Willie Chalmers III for Las Vegans for Better Transit.
The site is intentionally lightweight: static pages, plain links, and public source code where possible. Event data comes from the organization's public Google Calendar, and newsletter issues link out to Beehiiv.
Color, typography, logos, and voice follow the organization's brand guidelines.
Found a typo, broken link, or accessibility issue? Send a note to hello@lasvegasfortransit.org.
Technical details
The stack is chosen for a grassroots budget: cheap to run, fast on any phone, and simple enough for a volunteer to keep going without a full-time engineer.
The site is static wherever possible. Pre-built HTML means there is no server to keep alive or patch, hosting stays close to free, and pages load quickly even on an old phone or a weak connection. That matters when the audience is transit riders, not people sitting on office Wi-Fi.
Astro builds those pages while keeping JavaScript to a minimum, so the site stays fast and accessible. Content lives in plain text files, so a volunteer can add an event or fix a page without learning a framework first.
Cloudflare Pages hosts it on a global network at little or no cost, with no lock-in to a pricey team plan. The few dynamic pieces, like membership sign-ups, run as small Cloudflare functions instead of a full back-end that someone would have to maintain.
Tailwind CSS ties every page to the same design tokens, so the brand stays consistent no matter who is editing. Public Sans, an open typeface developed for the U.S. government, keeps the look plainly civic and costs nothing to license.
Playwright runs automated checks for layout, color contrast, and broken links before anything ships, so a small team can change the site without quietly breaking it. The full source is public on GitHub for anyone to inspect, learn from, or build on.