100 Questions for Web Masters

back then, when i thought computers were fun and i first started surfing using the world wide web, everything seemed to be published in a completely haphazard way on people's personal home pages. commercial web sites were pretty rare, and big knowledge bases like Wikipedia and fan wikis didn't exist yet. there was no such word as blog. everything was just cobbled together by hand, the best we could. and that's what made it wonderful.

when you searched around the old web for cool stuff (like, you know, Star Trek or something), you invariably ended up on some bloke's web page where he had all of the facts intermingled with photos of the cat's breakfast.

it was one of those moments when we felt like we were living in the future.

it was cool, and i naturally wanted to be part of the club!

i find anything published on the web (by people) fascinating. because, even if im not interested particularly in the subject matter, i love seeing what other people are doing with their subject.

i guess, though, i lean towards web sites related to technology or scifi.

(pretty sure) i do, but it's not something i use a lot. let me just check...

update: yeah i know how to use it! interesting to note that you can wrap each list item in <div>, i'd been wondering about that (so i can use break-inside, unless there's a better way.)

i do, but it's for an un-related project which has completely stalled while i potter about with Shen’s World.

i used to buy domains for fun or random ideas, but i've let most of them lapse over the years because i never did anything with them.

it's not all bad, though. i've done more web development for myself since i joined neocities than i have done in perhaps ten years.

i suppose i could point a custom domain here, but i like my .neocities.org URL, it's a badge of honour.

to be honest on this particular web site, ive never checked.

but back in the day, especially during the browser wars followed by our brief, well-formedness-obsessed dalliance with XHTML, i made validation a pretty high priority. the first step of diagnosing a front-end problem was "validate your HTML!" but then there were third-party frameworks and widgets that we had to use, which refused to produce valid markup no matter what i tried (yes ASP.NET, i'm talking about you...)

ok, i checked my homepage: 2 missing alt attributes, 4 bits of broken inline CSS (oh, that explains that then,) 8 minor warnings. not too bad. nothing i can't fix.

oh, is there a debate? i didn't know.

i chose Neocities for its (admittedly tenuous) "Geocities revival" vibe, and i (currently) have no desire to move.

oh, hopefully.

my old mate Mark insisted that backups don't exist until they've been tested.

at the moment i'm at least tweaking something pretty much every day, but i'm sure that won't last too long.

my big updates should be are listed in my rss feed.

unnecessary and rude.

funnily enough, just yesterday i was added to three web rings: html energy, no ai, and rewild the web. check them out on my homepage.

the wikipedia describes web rings as a relic of the old web, which makes me feel.... well, let's just say this isn't the first time i've joined a web ring.

it's something i havent thought about for years, but i think web rings are a great idea. let's all get out there and link to each other! as soon as i realised they were relevant again, i immediately applied to join a few (although i think three is probably enough.)

i can operate Photoshop etc, so i can make my own graphics when i need to. but i'm most definitely not an artist.

i miss them, although i fully understand the reasons they are gone. i/we did some fun and useful things with <frameset> over the years. they might have been abused over-used for layout, but it was the only way to do "single page apps" or partial loading... before we had partial loading.

// break out of frames
if(top.location != location)
{
  top.location.href =
      document.location.href;
}

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absolutely, it used to be the future!

(see question 20.)