I suggest you back up the HTML files as a record of her work when she was still a child, it will be a family treasure in the future :) You can even add it under your family's domain for safekeeping.
My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#222Exactly as I would do it if I were a 7yo. Speak what you will about the virtues of CSS and semantic markup, these things get in the way of having fun. And can be learned later.
The issue with this is that it lacks the semantic - styling separation of proper modern HTML with CSS.
Like compare that mess to the elegant semantic structure of a state of the art webpage like google.com
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#223I learned quite a lot by viewing the source of this delightfully clean and spartan website.
You don't need a DOCTYPE tag?
You don't need a head tag?
You don't need to declare the charset?
The body tag has a "background" attribute?
The HTML "center" tag still works?
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#224Exactly as I would do it if I were a 7yo. Speak what you will about the virtues of CSS and semantic markup, these things get in the way of having fun. And can be learned later.
On the contrary, CSS is where the fun starts.
I remember getting confused/disgusted looks at my first front-end job when I said I loved CSS and would be happy to work on styling...
Later I learned that having 3 or more different ways to get an identical result is... time-consuming, at best. When they all might work slightly differently depending on several layers of context (or just not work), you realize CSS is ripe for massive pain points to spring up, and they can happen unexpectedly. I understood why everyone else hated CSS - under time pressure, it's just not worth dealing with 99.9% of the complexities for immeasurably small + abstract returns.
Eventually, I determined that I both love and despise CSS in different aspects. It's complex enough to hold both attitudes. And I'm very, very satisfied that Tailwind came along and (nearly) perfected what Bootstrap et al were figuring out before it.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#225"Cats are about 2 feet that means six times there height would be about 12 feet."
hehehehehe
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#226I learned quite a lot by viewing the source of this delightfully clean and spartan website. You don't need a DOCTYPE tag? You don't need a head tag? You don't need to declare the charset? The body tag has a "background" attribute? The HTML "center" tag still works?
> You don't need a DOCTYPE tag?
> You don't need a head tag?
> You don't need to declare the charset?
True, there are many things you don't need for a page to be rendered in a typical browser, but that doesn't make them useless. For example, DOCTYPE has exactly one purpose: tell the browser not to treat your page like it was designed for ancient versions of Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, with all the "quirks" of their pre-standardization rendering engines.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unsolicited critique is almost always unwelcome critique, in my experience. Especially where someone else's 7 year old is concerned.
Respectfully, if you see the comment as critique, that’s on you. It could just as easily be described as “unsolicited advice” or “unsolicited tips”. The communicator does have responsibility on how their message comes across, thought not all of it. It’s on the receiver to also make an effort to understand what was meant and not take unnecessary offence. The comment reads pretty much neutral, apart from a post scriptu…
Let's agree to disagree. I most certainly didn't take offense. I just disagreed (and continue to disagree) with the (your) comment that I responded to. I'm sure the parent of the 7 year old in question was aware of the shortcomings of the code. The fact that a (presumed) grown-up read the post/thread and their reaction was to provide a code review is odd to me and more than a little hackernews-ish which the poster you responded to poked fun at and which you seemed to take exception to.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#228This makes me so happy to see.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#229I love this. Her little site really takes me back to the age of the internet I often miss.
Back in the 90s, fresh out of art school I knew I needed to create a portfolio website of some sort. I went to a Borders Books and got a book about 4 or 5 inches think about HTML and how to craft a site using a tool built into Netscape Navigator. Over the course of a week or so I created a site very similar in function to the one in the OP. The main difference was the content.
On my homepage I featured one of my drawings - a color pencil rendering of a very large/wide man in a jock strap looking at the viewer with a cunning smile. Yes, I was very mature. You had click on his belly to enter the site. This was where I learned to make an image map for the first time. When you clicked it he said, "Ooh, that tickles" and then you were in where the portfolio and navigation was presented.
It was all HTML 4, no javascript, no cookies or forms - all very basic stuff.
And that site got me my first real job in the design world (at an Adobe competitor called Micrografx, which later imploded). The rest is history! Thanks, Netscape.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#230Bookmarked and going in the webring