It loads so fast!
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
#122There’s so many italian old italian sites with this design My favorite in High Scool was http://ripmat.it That site is the only reason I managed to learn Math school
This site is very fast.
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you want something to last, don't base it on something that won't last. and > I guess what I'm saying is that if you want to build a site to last 25 years without numerous redesigns, build a static HTML page. While simplicity is a great way to future proof things, I'm not convinced that this argument in general would work nearly as well without the benefit of hindsight. One could be forgiven for confusing it wit…
I think you can generalise the advice: remove as many processing steps as you can. It's not so much that you needed to guess that HTML was going to be as long-lived as it is, it's that HTML is the final product that actually loads on the users computer, and those tend to stick around for a long time (or at least be emulated). The code that lives on a backend server somewhere, not so much. For what it's worth, I don't…
This is one reason why the static site generator I use for my personal website uses HTML rather than something like Markdown.
I don't think Markdown is going anyway, incidentally, or that it would be hard to process on my own if I needed to. But the HTML I use is simple enough and Markdown only decreases the probability the site will last a long time.
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#124Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#125My 23 year old web site: https://jgc.org/ It's still updated from a Perl script that generates static HTML.
Imagine stumbling upon an old-fashioned website, reading it is maintained by the CTO of Cloudflare, of all people.
I think from time to time that I should completely change it and update it. But I can't really be bothered, Cloudflare takes a lot of my time.
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
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’?
Would you also consider a laptop to be a "device" that is "mobile"?
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#127My 23 year old web site: https://jgc.org/ It's still updated from a Perl script that generates static HTML.
https://imgur.com/a/DCum3Ur here is how it render on my 14" screen :/
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#128Once worked on an enormous, very popular site built by hand in Frontpage. It had millions of pageviews, made over 6 figures a month in AdSense and been updated so often and for so long that the owner didn’t actually know how many pages there were. Had to hire someone just to index it. Not bad for plain old html and css.
Ah, the old days of the web, when it was possible to make money via AdSense. Users would actually bookmark sites those days, so there was no need to throw an email signup popup in their face when the page loaded. The comments would have real people conversing, and not filled with spambots pushing fake Guccis and Air Jordans.
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#129My 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?
Was FrontPage ever sold digitally? I wouldn't be surprised if my parents still had their disc copies of Office 95-XP (some even legal thanks to PC bundle deals).