"DEBATE MENTION OF WEB SITE CAUSES FLOOD OF VISITORS"
Goes on to say that the site received more than 762,000 "hits" in a four hour period:
http://www.dolekemp96.org/news/releases/proct0796a.htm
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Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
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Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#32"Bill Clinton Wants to Put 'Big Brother' in Your Computer" Haha! http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/internet.htm
Actually, this was a pretty big deal to the Electronic Frontier Foundation back in the day. More information: https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Key_escrow/Clipper/
Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#33My work computer categorized the site as pornography
Access Denied!
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tightness of the layout probably stems from low resolution screens. In '96 the most typical display size was something around 640x480 or 800x600, not a lot of room to breathe there.
In the last month, I've had 2 people tell me (unsolicited of course) that my website looks like it was made 10 years ago. I went to this 1996 campaign site and said with dismay, it looks like my website. I recognized many of of the above historical attributes (table-based layout, centered narrow, body bgcolor attribute) in my own site. I've got a full-time job as a UNIX system administrator, and a part-time business…
I've heard good things about bootstrap [1]. I think you can pretty easily get a reasonable looking site if you use that.
Another option is to look at sites offering free HTML templates. Usually you can find something decent.
Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tightness of the layout probably stems from low resolution screens. In '96 the most typical display size was something around 640x480 or 800x600, not a lot of room to breathe there.
In the last month, I've had 2 people tell me (unsolicited of course) that my website looks like it was made 10 years ago. I went to this 1996 campaign site and said with dismay, it looks like my website. I recognized many of of the above historical attributes (table-based layout, centered narrow, body bgcolor attribute) in my own site. I've got a full-time job as a UNIX system administrator, and a part-time business…
If you don't mind looking a bit like other sites, I'd highly recommend using bootstrap as a basis for a modern-looking redesign. You can customize it to your will, or even buy some bootstrap-based layouts to work with for not much money: https://wrapbootstrap.com/
As someone who learned table-based layouts and who now designs using HTML5 and CSS3, rest assured that the "new" web is not that hard to learn as long as you understand the basics of css. And almost all your JavaScript skills will transfer. It's really as easy as picking up a book on HTML5 and reading it. Alternately, check out: http://diveintohtml5.info/
Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#36Makes you wonder who, if anyone, is still paying to host the site. Someone must be keeping it online on purpose, right?
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#37Makes you wonder who, if anyone, is still paying to host the site. Someone must be keeping it online on purpose, right?
I don't have a hard time believing that someone signed up for some sort of annual billing and never bothered to cancel it. Perhaps they host a whole bunch of stuff with the same company and simply pay their bills without double checking ever line item.
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#38I wish sites were still designed this way. Not the animated gifs or the font size 1, but the fact that once the site is loaded, it's completely done. And if I refresh the page, or bookmark the link and come back later, I'm going to see the exact same page. According to the Chrome developer tools the page took 2ms to render and 4ms to paint. I write JavaScript professionally but not all web sites need JavaScript, in f…
I'm in the same boat as you. I absolutely _love_ developing sites JavaScript-free on the first pass. It really makes you realize how much of a crutch it's been that you've depended on, and how much you can get away with these days without it, especially with the rise of newer CSS features in the last couple of years.
At the end of the day you're left with a very fast and clean site that you can, after careful consideration, add very tiny JS snippets to in order to improve UX in places.
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#39Total badass. A few months ago I saw a gallery of screenshots taken from 'wayback machine' of a whole bunch of old websites. Netflix, Dell, and Apple look COMPLETELY different. What's surprising (or maybe not) is that Amazon 7 years ago looks almost exactly the same. Thanks for sharing the Dole / Kemp campaign site - brings back fond memories. Heres's the gallery if you're interested... http://www.shopify.com/blog/6464492-the-ecommerce-graveyard-...
Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#40Bit of mudslinging going on about a "clipper chip." I was much too young to really know what was going on with this (can read up on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip), but it's interesting to see that there were security concerns in 1996 similar to the ones we have in 2012. http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/internet.htm