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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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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".

Works fine for me. Might be time to see the doctor and get your eyes checked.

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

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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".

It's not so bad if your mobile browser supports pinch to zoom.

Most mobile browsers support it out of the box. If the site designer set "user-scalable=no" in the meta viewport property, than that will prevent zooming. It's an accessibility issue and should be avoided.

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

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My 23 year old web site: https://jgc.org/ It's still updated from a Perl script that generates static HTML.

So I wanted to link my 23 year old website, but precisely because it's still updated, it looks like this: https://www.stavros.io/

It's gone through many renames and redesigns, but, in true Japanese style, it's still the same website. I do have an old snapshot, though: https://anonymoussoftware.stavros.io/

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

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This is pretty cool. I had to look Frontpage up! Logic dictates that there must have been a point in time where the prevailing opinion shifted from “Uses ancient UI” to “Has a cool retro feel”. Probably all technologies go through this? Like vinyl becoming cool a few years back. Has happened with Flash games recently. Is there a name for this?

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

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This website looks extremely familiar. I think I visited it about 15 years ago and I am not completely sure but didn't you have a nice drawing and photo editing software there? I can't remember the name of it but it was the best ever, until it was disappointingly discontinued because of lack of buying customers :(

Yes, ArtGem ( https://rlvision.com/artgem_about.php ). We were a couple of guys that tried at making shareware, but sadly failed. I continued running the site to host my own utilities, some of which eventually turned into shareware. I don't earn much money from it, but I enjoy making software and it makes me happy when other people find them useful as well!

So nice to hear from the developer of some software I very much liked and used as a kid. I especially liked the smudge feature. You definitely made me happy and I thank you for that.

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

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post #109
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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’?

A landscape iPad has the same 4:3 aspect ratio as most PC monitors during that time (800px x 600px or 1024px x 768px)

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

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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.…

Don't know about PWA. Service workers are pretty lightweight and help with caching.

But yeah, lazy-loading, infinite scroll, etc., are all designed to cover up design flaws that impact performance. I think lazy-loading can be potentially done right, but almost none of us do anything right.

> use EM or % as layout width/height

Why? EM/REM is good for handling font sizes, but for anything else it may not make sense and a custom font setting in the browser can break layouts if the size of boxes are based on font sizes. PX is perfectly adequate for layout, and is actually a relative unit(PX !== hardware pixel). Same for borders, padding, margin, etc. Even REM is better than EM for most cases. People who adjust the font size in their browser don't necessarily want their layout to change and potentially degrade as a result.

> inline css, js, and svg

Can be a good idea, especially if you can somehow identify the CSS used on page load and discard anything nonessential. Though maybe HTTP/2 makes inlining obsolete. IDK

> no webfonts!

Thank you! Web fonts are perfectly sufficient in 99% of cases.

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

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

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

Much of the world uses . for a number separator.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0169/overview-9/ind...

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