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ReleaseTheGeese
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on: January 15, 2023, 23:37
I've always had a fascination with the spirit of the early web. The idea that you owned a homepage, made the style as much of it as yours. Or others who put something together that's showing high ability, presenting something in the browser that's a work of art in its own right. Still others have passions and they create websites documenting them for the ages. In that spirit, I created a website called Well Made Web. I've collated quite a number of these websites and I'm still going. I thought there might be some overlap with the retrocomputing world, so I'm sharing it here to anyone interested. Though if this is against board rules and needs taken down, no offence will be taken. Well Made Web: http://wmw.thran.uk/ The website itself is built using a static website builder I wrote in Perl, I'm happy to elaborate for anyone brave enough to ask. I don't know how well WMW will appear on S7 browsers, but I'd be curious. It uses some CSS and a little JS for a text animation. The CSS fonts are WOFF so I doubt they'll work 
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Last Edit: January 15, 2023, 23:39 by compact-mac
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #1 on: January 16, 2023, 09:39
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@Knezzen - someone who knows Perl! Weren't you looking for someone? :-) @compact-mac - Neat project. I've been looking for a kind of web directory with retro related pages. There's a search engine called wiby.org for finding them non-commercial private websites. But it's a search engine. I also liked managed web catalogues (like Yahoo in its heyday) much better for exploring. I fully agree on early web. Today's web design is incredibly boring, everything basically looking the same. (boxes with huge padding and whitespace, broken up by full-width images) It looks like everything coming from the same person (curse you, Bootstrap) with no personality of its own. But wasn't web design supposed to be so easy that EVERY person can set up their own website, without needing a tool chain with an Dev Ops engineer and professional developers to push code? And then there's the actual content issue, where back in the old days we usually had pages packed-full with valuable information on few space whereas today most pages sell you "emotions" through video and pictures but hardly have valuable info on them anymore. As for System 7 compatibility: Well, there's no JS support and CSS implementation is for CSS1, which means basically none, so skip that. But look at your page, I don't see anything that'd require CSS or JS to work? Why not do the old way - hand-write a table layout? Will the pages you feature only be topic-wise be retro computer websites or will they also *work* on actual retro computers? The latter sounds like something that'd be really useful, especially when including various platforms.
Last Edit: January 19, 2023, 17:31 by Bolkonskij
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ReleaseTheGeese
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32 MB Posts: 37 Division 1 Computer Support
Reply #2 on: January 19, 2023, 12:55
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WMW is intended to be a showcase of artistic achievement on the web, but I take the point. There is some overlap with simpler older designs but not everything there is going to be suitable for older machines. So I've an idea. The static site generator script I wrote (rsru.pl) could quite comfortably build a directory website like the one you described. All it requires is a template file, it will happily spit out a tables/html4/low-to-no CSS layout that would render on S7 machines. It even does RSS for those inclined. Perhaps if someone was willing to create the template, I'd adapt it to work with RSRU. Then we could create the directory website. Since RSRU uses simple text files to generate its entries, we could take submissions and even store them on a public repository like GitHub. The full guide (how to do templates and entry files) is here: http://soft.thran.uk/rsru.html
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