Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Web 1.0, Revisited

The last time I edited the index file of my personal webpage, it was 2006. Seriously. Eight freakin' years ago. But it still has a doll section, and as I just got a Lammily doll (my bit toward helping girls grow up with healthier body images), so I figured I'd put the update there. It's all hand-spun manual HTML4 strict. No problem, I figured. I wrote the damn thing, I figured, how hard could it be?
Hard, as it turns out. First, the page was done by hand, with absolutely no validation. So the section I copied to add my new entry? Broke the entire page. The good news is I now remember how to do tables, and I kind of miss the simplicity of them, now that I remember. But good grief. I added 4 photos and a paragraph and it took me all evening.
It validates now. Still in 4.01 strict, still HTML, no style sheet. But this is the last time. Next time I have the time and inclination to do some web code, all that stuff is getting replaced.
In case you wondered, it's at http://www.netfossil.com/jim/dolls.

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