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18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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My personal/hobby business web site ( https://www.rlvision.com ) is based on code 22 years ago. It's built with tables, because that's how you did things back then. The age shows. But I haven't found reason to rebuild it yet. Simply put, it works. It may not be mobile friendly, but the goal is to make available my Windows software, so my aim is desktop users.

Replace Genius looks great - I will be trying it out soon!

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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post #73

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Have to wonder how much that domain name is worth...?

USD 25.000 according to GoDaddy https://godaddy.com/domain-value-appraisal/appraisal/?checkA...

They mean USD $25,000 and not $25.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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post #109
post #40

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Have you actually tried the site on a mobile device? It's impossible to read the text and navigation is hell. Wouldn't classify that as "mobile friendly".

Just tried on iPad, the site works great. Did you mean ‘phone’ and not ‘mobile device’?

ohhh so pedantic. Love it.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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post #87

My father still updates his website with Frontpage (he had a recent 6 month outage because he inadvertently deleted the Windows XP vmdk on his system, but I recovered that for him recently.) He’s 75, and isn’t interested in converting or learning anything new at this stage. The funny thing is for years his home-made site was the top google hit if you searched for “hill's criteria” (See Hill's criteria of causation).…

Hmm, how do you manage to acquire a legal of copy of Frontpage (even Express) these days for your dad?

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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post #80

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=... 100 Points. Mobile First. Better than React Native.

100 points on pagespeed is not that hard with static sites. - drop 99% of the JS (PWA, lazy-loading, infinite scroll, jquery, you don't need any of them for a webpage), convert the remaining for 1% to vanilla js and use it as progressive enhancement. - use EM or % as layout width/height - inline css, js, and svg EDIT - no webfonts! The only thing that'll remain as an issue are tables wider, than viewport, on mobile.…

Gee, maybe that's sort of an indication on how far backwards the user experience on web has fallen.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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My personal site, http://don.dream-in-color.net has been at that URL (and with this design) for over 20 years. The reading list (http://don.dream-in-color.net/books/ ) dates back to a page that was originally served over FTP and will turn 25 years old in May.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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This is hilarious! Turns out 18 year old websites were mobile friendly after all

Have you actually tried the site on a mobile device? It's impossible to read the text and navigation is hell. Wouldn't classify that as "mobile friendly".

What do you mean? The text isn't much smaller than on HN on my 5.5" phone. It's entirely readable.
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