My work computer categorized the site as pornography Access Denied!
Ditto, hope the men in suits don't come down.
Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
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Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#62This is quite nice for a 1996 website. I guess it shows how much the development of (nice) web design was held back by a combination of the ~2000 flashpocalypse and IE6. I felt quite nostalgic looking at the designs from this era: http://www.4president.us/2000websites.htm Luckily, there is a certain font present that will stop you from feeling too sentimental. :-)
Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#63Earlier 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…
Email forthcoming :)
Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#64"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.
Or this:
http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/civil.htm
And today far too many people are salivating at the idea of gutting the Voting Rights Act.
On the other hand, one of the longest pages is on the drug war (in support of extending and intensifying it). It's hard to imagine a Republican making that a central plank in their platform, either.
Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 y…
by the looks of it, bootstrap heavily relies on javascript on pretty much everything. is that just my first (bad) impression or actually true?
Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#66from the commercials page ( http://www.dolekemp96.org/news/commercials/commercials.html ), in reference to the bad Clinton economy that Dole would fix: Two incomes needed to make ends meet. Not sure whether to laugh or to cry, thinking that just a while ago a politician called attention to this as though it were a fixable problem...were things really so different 16 years ago?
Yup.
Lots more blue-collar jobs with pensions. '96 was 'pre-China' for more sophisticated manufacturing.
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#67I 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 code my site by hand... each and every page... for these same reasons. I need to figure out templating because it has become quite tedious to update links and I'm only at <50 pages!
Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#68I 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 code my site by hand... each and every page... for these same reasons. I need to figure out templating because it has become quite tedious to update links and I'm only at <50 pages!
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Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always wondered, what's the best looking website of the 1990s? Was there anything that people would deem as "good" as some of today's top designs? I feel like there had to be at least someone with a very refined sense of aesthetic making awesome websites back then.
Drudge Report. Even if you don't like the political "lean" of it (I, personally, don't), you have to appreciate a design that has (basically) stayed the same since it was founded in the mid 90s. The "minimalism" from Drudge had a big impact on a lot of modern web design.
trust me, drudge's minimalism didn't influence modern web design.
Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign
#70I 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…
Pretty stark difference between the two when you compare WebPageTest.org results.