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Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by PleaseStand »

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #5
tocomment wrote: post #3

So what is it about this design that makes it look "dated"? It's not just the grainy images, right? Is it the smaller text? More compact style?

I was thinking it holds up quite well, compared to my subjective memory of websites from that vintage. There are no scrolling banners or other dancing garbage (with the exception of one animated GIF that is relatively restrained), and the layout wouldn't look out of place today if the elements had a bit more room to breathe. Even the markup is surprisingly clean: * Most tag names are lowercase * Attributes are double…

I doubt anyone would have used CSS in 1996, and "FrontPage 6.0 [2003]" did not exist back then. FrontPage might have only been used as part of the archival process (for removing links to dynamically generated pages and other excluded content and adding a fourth footer line to every page).

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by spinchange »

"Like no President since Lincoln, he will bring to the Presidency the values and principles of all Americans."

Politicians have always and will always make great claims and comparisons and appeals to authority, history, etc., but I can't imagine a modern campaign (on either side) just flat our saying our guy is the best thing since Lincoln.

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by AJ007 »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #23

I 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…

Another good example of complete sludge is what Google did to their official blogs.

I would be very happy if I could do everything I needed to do online each day just with Lynx and keyboard shortcuts.

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by pyre »

spinchange wrote: post #54

"Like no President since Lincoln, he will bring to the Presidency the values and principles of all Americans." Politicians have always and will always make great claims and comparisons and appeals to authority, history, etc., but I can't imagine a modern campaign (on either side) just flat our saying our guy is the best thing since Lincoln.

Well, Bob Dole's campaign didn't have to deal with movies like "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" or "Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies." Though maybe "Bob Dole: Liberal Slayer" would have been a better campaign platform? ;-)

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by Zimahl »

spinchange wrote: post #54

"Like no President since Lincoln, he will bring to the Presidency the values and principles of all Americans." Politicians have always and will always make great claims and comparisons and appeals to authority, history, etc., but I can't imagine a modern campaign (on either side) just flat our saying our guy is the best thing since Lincoln.

Considering in hindsight he was a great man who made the right decisions at the time, in his era Lincoln was such a polarizing figure.

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by brudgers »

spinchange wrote: post #54

"Like no President since Lincoln, he will bring to the Presidency the values and principles of all Americans." Politicians have always and will always make great claims and comparisons and appeals to authority, history, etc., but I can't imagine a modern campaign (on either side) just flat our saying our guy is the best thing since Lincoln.

I can't imagine a Republican of recent years running on this sort of environmental record:

http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/environment.htm

Then again, I increasingly have trouble imagining a Democrat doing so, either.

I miss the World War II veterans in U.S. politics.

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by charonn0 »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #23

I 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…

http://www.readability.com/
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