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A Local News Website Made in the Pre-historic Days

cvilleok.com

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And yet the copyright reads 2010. This implies Ted went to update the header in January, looked over the site, and said, "Yep, this looks good."

The first hit in the Wayback Machine is from 2003.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030416071159/http://www.cvilleo...

Typical amateur site design. He didn't adopt the "blizzard of tables" design until 2006.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060511052754/http://www.cvilleo...

Somebody give this man a job in your startup (and film it)

once they got adapted to reading and maintaining their site, it may really be a burden to change it to something else without promise of significant gain. What they would gain by changing it to another design style?

For users: Readability? hardly because they have already adapted to current design.

For author: Ease of maintenance? highly questionable.

i wonder why it hasnt been overhauled. amazing to think there used to be an abundance of cluttered websites like these. reminds me of aol and yahoo.

certainly has a little bit of nostalgia factor. also reminds me of the geocities-izer @ http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

Anybody got a web design company? I think I might have a likely customer for you.

scary....

http://www.cvilleok.com/2010JulNews/MorganRobertsNationals2....

Looks cool. You can never have enough tables.

Don't forget the frames.

My poor eyes.

You know, there sorts of links are fun and all, but not really HN material.

I wouldn't necessarily say that. I find it interesting that some segment of the internet finds this site useful, or it wouldn't have existed for as long as it has. Perhaps a small rural town finds this the easiest way to quickly browse their town's happenings?

Of course, I agree that it's about as readable as minified Javascript, and the first thing I thought of when I saw it was the "million dollar website". But you'd have to think that the guy that put it together had used SOME other part of the internet (at least Google) and still decided that this was acceptable for his community.

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