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Shouldn’t this have one of those “Don’t Try This At Home” warnings attached? :smiley: (Just in case anybody thinks that by posting it hear we’re somehow endorsing it?)

How did you even come across that SOTD?

You must have triggered Google’s Socially Advanced Language Compatibility mode. Searches are “intelligently” executed without those demeaning “Did you mean …” prompts, and results are “translated” to include misspellings and other expressions of language associated with the search string; thus, no user has to feel marginalized or otherwise less than perfect about himself.

Coming soon!..

Maybe here or here. :wink:

Yes, I think it’s easy to pillory sites from the web (from starting web developers too), for there are 10.000’s of them which have a lack of quality in terms of coding.
All starters have to experiment and to learn (we’ve all been starters, and we all have made strange antics I guess), and a lot of personal sites don’t ever go beyond a starter’s level (they intended to make a site, not to be a specialist. Nobody to blame!).

  • Apart from the many deprecated coding “tutorials” poisoning the web (as a starter you can’t distinct between the good, the bad and the ugly!), and apart form webbuilders (as programs or included in a CMS) which cannot deliver proper coding.
  • Besides that, we have to consider the difference in cultural backgrounds about what is visually attractive. In one culture something can be seen as beautiful, in an other culture the same design can be judged as overdone.
  • It’s a pity that it seems to be a common use for starting webdevelopers to exaggerate their skills, but he is certainly not the only one. :rolleyes:

I found another webpage of him: [U]jaygovindallahabad.blogspot.com[/U]
And I’m sure he has the goal to honour his God in this way. So basically there is nothing to make a mockery about.

  • But when I see the coding (with the restrictions of blogspot!), searching for any “stoopid javascript trick”, it appears to be not javascript, but … 21 vertical marquee’s, blocking the links under them! … OMG. :wink:

As it cannot be in the spirit of the SPF community to make fun about mistakes of a webmaker, but just to help him/her to avoid mistakes, I should say:

  • No pillory of sites who haven’t asked for comments.
  • Only a site review, with tips for the maker, if the maker of a discovered “wrong site” is contacted and has given his/her consent for a review over here.
  • Second choice: at least a message to the maker, that a review with tips is made and where this topic can be found in the forum.
  • Unless it is a website of a big company, which should know better. *)

Christmas idea? :hohoho:


*) Like Microsoft, that should be using css instead of tables (with 76 spacer gif’s to get it cross browser), in the 2004 article of Douglas Bowman “[U]Throwing tables out the window[/U]”.

A friend sent it to me.

[FONT=Georgia]Hey! Me too!

Well, more like from the 2004’s, because I was still in school in the 90’s.

The fun thing is I can look at my earliest websites anytime I want, right from my external, because they were all pure HTML. No server needed to parse anything. I dig them up every now and again to get a laugh.[/FONT]

Sure buddy :stuck_out_tongue:

Here too , I didnt look into server-side until 99 when a friend sent over some php info and examples

Some of my old sites are in the archive wayback machine ha ha unbelievable :stuck_out_tongue:

hahahaha…i can’t stop laughing…

wow man… It seems you are promoting it