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Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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My favorite "Retro awful": Site: https://www.lingscars.com/

I remember how she was ridiculed on Dragon's Den,yet she's the one employing a bunch of people and having a successful business. I remember reading that she's even hired someone to do some maintenance in the town,because the local council couldn't afford it anymore.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a client side problem, not a server side problem. The rendering and presentation of a webpage are entirely up to the client, absolutely nothing dictates that a page should look a certain way on a certain client.

There are a ton of attributes in the HTML that dictates how the website should render - it has a bgcolor and a margin on the body tag, a width and height on the main table, center tags all over the place, etc. Suggesting that a browser should ignore the HTML spec and do something else would completely destroy the web.

User agents already can ignore css and have user defined stylesheets and even JavaScript. None if this is new and it's a failure of our profession that that is abnormal and produces spectacularly poor results for users.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

#46

My favorite like this site is http://www.burger.com - this dude has a hilarious array of hobbies and awesome beveled button links.

Have to wonder how much that domain name is worth...?

Probably expensive, but I doubt it's actually worth anything. I reckon it's much harder to build a brand when you start with a generic word.
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