FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

For programming, I used Visual Interdev which resembled Microsoft Visual Code more than Frontpage. Visual Interdev was part of the Visual Studio package.

Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

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Post by kumarvvr » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 8:11 AM UTC

"WebMaster". I see this term a lot in older sites. "WebMasters click here !" sort of links.

What does it really mean? The term.

Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

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Post by bru » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 8:13 AM UTC

kumarvvr wrote: post #5

"WebMaster". I see this term a lot in older sites. "WebMasters click here !" sort of links. What does it really mean? The term.

Person who built the website & is responsible for its uptime.

Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

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Post by maaaats » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 8:14 AM UTC

Born in 91, I was the perfect age to be obsessed with Harry Potter. When I was around ten, an older kid in the neighborhood helped me make a Harry Potter themed website using FrontPage (the Express version I think it was named).

Small, random event that end up having a big effect on my life. My hobbies, what&where I chose to study, the friends I got there etc. I can trace back to this.

Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

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Post by steerpike » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 8:15 AM UTC

kumarvvr wrote: post #5

"WebMaster". I see this term a lot in older sites. "WebMasters click here !" sort of links. What does it really mean? The term.

It's what we used to call anyone who was a web developer back then. Bit of a mix between a system admin and front-end developer with maybe some perl tinkering in place.

Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

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Post by Angostura » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 8:15 AM UTC

kumarvvr wrote: post #5

"WebMaster". I see this term a lot in older sites. "WebMasters click here !" sort of links. What does it really mean? The term.

Quite simply, the person in charge of the web site. In those days, it was likely to be the person who wrote the HTML, wrote the content and set up the web server.

There are still quite a lot of them about in smaller companies - they keep Wordpress patched, post news stories, update pages etc.

Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

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Post by cybervegan » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 8:16 AM UTC

There were sooo many crap webpages created with that software. I used it myself for a while, before I knew better. It produced horrendous, buggy HTML. Table handling was pants - I used to have to hand code tables (used for layout!) to make them work properly. At least we don't have to do that these days... oh, wait, sorry. Ok, we do.