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My website is ugly because I made it

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Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by o_m »

donatj wrote: post #9
kapitanjakc wrote: post #4

I don't have a personal site yet. But when I do, I plan to make it with HTML+CSS+JS/JQ only Maybe apache or nginx as webservers host it on shared stuff or AWS free tier I just need to figure out how to center a div, and then I'll be in the business.

I've never understood the whole centering a div meme. width: 60%; // define your width as desired margin: 0 auto; Now go start your blog!

That's the old hacky way of doing it. place-content makes it even easier.

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by lo_zamoyski »

kapitanjakc wrote: post #4

I don't have a personal site yet. But when I do, I plan to make it with HTML+CSS+JS/JQ only Maybe apache or nginx as webservers host it on shared stuff or AWS free tier I just need to figure out how to center a div, and then I'll be in the business.

GitHub has free hosting.

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by neogodless »

BlackLotus89 wrote: post #19
mcdonje wrote: post #18

The pic of the ugly site looks like it's full of blog posts, but this post is on a different site for some reason. I would've rather been sent to the ugly site if it doesn't have marketing cookies and a membership popup.

If you look at the screencap you see a mail to hello@taylor.town. My first instinct was the same as yours so hf visiting https://taylor.town/ Edit: after posting this the taylor.town site became much slower - so maybe that's the hn hug of death gripping again

And the original linked article actually links at the bottom

> Taylor Troesh is mayor of taylor.town, author of scrapscript, and connoisseur of crap.

And on taylor.town is a link to the magazine article which they contributed.

Each of the blog screenshots has a caption like this:

> taylor.town in 202x

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by skydhash »

cuu508 wrote: post #15
donatj wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never understood the whole centering a div meme. width: 60%; // define your width as desired margin: 0 auto; Now go start your blog!

Now center div with unknown height vertically :-) And no cheating by using flexbox!

how do you center something on an axis with no limits placed to form a segments. That’s mathematically impossible unless you placed the limits first.

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by xyst »

Reminds me of a home I was interested in buying. Shades of grey, everywhere. White marble counter tops, of course. Very sterile.

Nothing wrong with it. It’s a choice. But does scream "millennial aesthetic". Maybe that’s what caused the vitriol that spurred this blog post

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by nonethewiser »

His website circa 2023 was not ugly. It was minamalist.

NOW its ugly.

Its funny because I initially agreed with him when I thought his website was the same as the 2023 version. Which I didnt find ugly. But now that I see it really is ugly I find myself with a more negative disposition towards his message.

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