Are there good free (as is free software) WYSIWYG website editors nowadays?
FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)
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Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
At my current job I am rewriting a 25 year-old VB application into a web-based application, and the majority* of our documentation is written in FrontPage. The horror, indeed. *: Well, sort of.. there are bits scattered everywhere, I had to dig into email archives to find some specifications.
Medical sector ?
No, industrial sector
Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)
#53The whole domain is amazing. Just look at this page, updated LAST YEAR: http://www.telecommanderhosting.com/ec/framed_Microsoft_OS.h... Look at the waving Win 95 logo! Not to mention the "office clipart guy" in the homepage... I am just suprised that the obligatory "under construction" gif is missing!
That Macromedia Flash theme for the cart <3
Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)
#54Oh god, the horror. Not just the ugly webpages, those were the ubiquitous style at the time. No, FrontPage pioneered deep ugliness, because like all Microsoft products of the 90s it regarded interoperability as a threat. It produces ugly HTML that works best in IE, and it has an optional upload mechanism that requires IIS on the server side. https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/frontpage/th...
Ugly html is a very kind way of putting it. To be fair that was the era of 20 nested tables for layout. Microsoft just managed to double down.
Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)
#55"WebMaster". I see this term a lot in older sites. "WebMasters click here !" sort of links. What does it really mean? The term.
there was also this thing between webmasters, called banner exchange. that's how you got new traffic to your website. i remember when i did my first gaming review site up in high school i was trying to get my banner to as many other sites as i could and they would get the place on my site. i remember tweaking my banner in macromedia flash :)
You could also have a webring for that
Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)
#56Isn't it funny that the _tone_ for an article written more than 20 years ago can change over time? Honestly, I don't know if the article was written in sarcasm or not.
Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)
#57Man, look at that site. Unimaginably fast, works perfect on mobile, no clutter and readable.
It truly has gone downhill since then.
Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)
#58Are there good free (as is free software) WYSIWYG website editors nowadays?
Hell are there good WYSIWYG website editors nowadays at any price?
Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)
#59Born 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.
Similar story for me, but with a Dragonball Z fan site. Internet, I'm sorry.
Made a Pokemon fan site, must have been 9 or something, I didn't know how to link to other pages, so everything was one page and links worked via anchors...
Re: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)
#60Man, look at that site. Unimaginably fast, works perfect on mobile, no clutter and readable. It truly has gone downhill since then.
Zero javascript, zero CSS; it uses and only.