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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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Post by alvarezo »

tbdr wrote: post #72
rlv-dan wrote: post #64

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.

happy user of RLVision Artgem - thank you !

Holy, that was it - ArtGem! Perfect middle ground between Photoshop and Paint. Great features, pleasant feel to use.

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

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Post by achairapart »

sakarisson wrote: post #58
stabbles wrote: post #34

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

More like 18 year old websites are so rare that page rating services don't even work for them.

Sure they work! It's very easy to get 100/100 when you don't use any blocking CSS or JavaScript and all images are optimized for 56k modems.

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

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Post by vesinisa »

jsaldes wrote: post #40
stabbles wrote: post #34

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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".

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

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

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Post by seisvelas »

1_player wrote: post #50

I'm surprised to see still exists and works in modern browsers. And saddened to see it updates at ~20fps, at least on Safari. Time for a smooth, GPU accelerated 60+fps marquee implementation?

While support is near universal, I was sad to find out that has not fared so well.

I'm sure a lot of you already know this easter egg, but if you search "blink tag" in Google, Google makes all the blink tags actually work (using JS of course but still)

https://www.google.com/search?q=blink+tag

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

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Post by abruzzi »

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). His site is http://drabruzzi.com/

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

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Post by godzillabrennus »

pmlnr wrote: post #55
stabbles wrote: post #34

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

Pre frames and table-layout designs are pretty good, because they are dead simple HTML - and thus, they allow reflow, being responsive as a result. This is not one of those.

The first wysiwyg editors (front page, golive, dreamweaver, etc..) were heavy abusers of tables.

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

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Post by mmmBacon »

jeremyswank wrote: post #69

My first site is still live. It went live in 1997, hand coded (using tables). Went through a few redesigns but the 2000 version has been left online as a fixed digital artifact from the time: http://pwp.detritus.net/

Seriously very nice design for 2000.

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

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Post by geocrasher »

These simple sites show us something profound: If you want something to last, don't base it on something that won't last. There are a some technologies that will never allow somebody to build a site and leave it unchanged for 20 or 25 years. Cold Fusion comes to mind. Almost nobody hosts it anymore for one. Can you imagine running the same WordPress version for 25 years? The version of PHP it runs on will be EOL long before.

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.

Looks like Web 1.0 got something right after all :)

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