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Show HN: My first HTML Demo

glennthealien.github.io

60 pointsGlennTheAlien41 comments

Great but you might want to consider redacting your email and phone number considering there are bots that can crawl and pick them up, leading to unwanted spam. Also sometimes people on the internet can be not so nice, and it's usually a good idea to minimize your exposure, especially in a very public platform like HN or Reddit.

This website is way better than my first attempt back in the day. Keep it on !

Nevertheless, maybe the public dislosure of your phone numbers is not necessary.

This website is way better than my first attempt back in the day.

Me too, but I wrote my first site when HTML 2.0 was standard so I have an excuse.

My first website was built with FrontPage[0].

I will recommend you to try it out after I figured out how to time travel :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage

I used Frontpage, and Frontpage Extensions on the server side. I used HoTMetaL, Dreamweaver, and a few other WYSIWYG editors too. They were good, but nothing quite beat Notepad (or BBEdit if you were on a Mac). I remember Adobe Pagemill was really handy for doing the same changes across hundreds of files too.

As fun as it was then I don't want to go back.

I used Frontpage for a good while (I made a nice chunk of change off of that app), but switched to Dreamweaver as I started doing more and more PHP.

But either way, I always loved those programs (and was really irritated by the elitists who said you couldn't make decent sites unless you used only notepad; those training wheels helped me become good at something that all of my "notepad-only" friends have all given up on).

But I agree, as fun as it was, I really have no desire to go back to that world.

MS Front page editor and Notepad were the only tools those days. But was really cool. I still remember my first website showing Dinosaurs family classification inspired by movie 'Jurassic Park'

Same case here. I built my first webpage in FrontPage hosted GeoCities[0] when I was 12 years old.

I remember downloading "magic" scripts from Dynamic Drive[1] mainly I learned how to use tables in HTML and inline styles.

I also had this prompt that asked for your name and the website displayed a welcome message.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities

[1] http://dynamicdrive.com/

This is really, really great. Especially that you coded all this without DIY tools. I remember, the first time I tried building a website it was with Microsoft Frontpage, and then I upgraded to Macromedia Dreamweaver (now Adobe) and finally I gave up on both and started coding on notepad because these tools got in my way. Atleast you're lucky enough not to worry about IE anymore ;)

Looks amazing. Way better than the typical React/Vue bloat that's advertised here on HN regularly. I dig the background, it fits well with the text, although the font looks a bit weird. I think Comic Sans or <marquee> tags would make it stand out a bit more.

Don't forget those <blink> tags.

It is a good idea to remove your sensitive info (e.g. phone number, last name, mail address) or replace it with bunk.

Definetly! You should use junk data (ex: 123-4567 as phone number) for everything you don't want to reveal. You can leave the email if you want to be contacted, although I recommend you to make a unique one for this purpose.

You can also host a private version which would contain the real information for employers

Nice website. The “about” section is probably the most interesting for visitors and could be expanded. Readers might not know what TAS is. Is there anything you want to add or change about the site?

hover over it (I used the abbr property for it)

From a technical standpoint, it's a website created using bootstrap and some inline CSS. The carousel works, and that's not trivial to achieve as a neophyte. There is a footer with an easter egg (small text).

Home pages were very common back in the 90s and these days are out of fashion mostly due to blogs and social networks.

That's why making a home page these days is even more important, in order to contribute to a more decentralized Internet. So good job keeping the flame alive.

While cool and all, I am sure it looks about on par with what everyone here did when starting out or am I crazy?

Thanks for not putting your age in the HN title though..

This is really great for first time website.

Nice website.

Interesting, in Taiwan international schools are forbidden to enrol Taiwanese students. I wonder what the rationale is behind that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_American_School

if u read carefully, they say only students without foreign passport, which I do (Canadian)

Next stop CSS. Try to make a web site using only HTML and CSS, without Bootstrap or JQuery. The trick is to use as much HTML semantics as possible, make the site readable using just HTML, then do all the styling in the CSS stylesheet. And add classes to the HTML elements if needed.

This is what I did when I was 13. :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20050503103013/http://eren13.8k....

Good times! I find out that my first one is still up: http://lacquemant.free.fr/

I did a quick angelfire search and to my complete and utter horror a few of my sites still exist from over fifteen years ago. Still waiting for time to erase them!

Uhh.. congrats on making a website? I mean, if you are a real poster and are the age of the people on your site, kudos on making a public site. But I'm sorry, I don't feel this deserves posting on HN. I'm feeling trolled right now.

Great start! Keep it up, stay curious & continue learning. Try to learn a bit of javascript with a fun game tutorial like this: https://codecombat.com

Really super stuff. Especially if this is your first time with HTML.

Cool stuff, Glenn! Keep doing and you'll go places!

Looks great!

Here is something to remember about doing this kind of work: It's never done! There is always something else to do. So, I hope you enjoy doing the work.

Looks good. One bit of advice - replace the background image with a solid color. A busy background image can make the text difficult to read.

Ahh, I have been trolled. HN needs a specific report button, even for young accounts, because duh, this post.

If you see something horrible wrong posted to HN you can email the mods: hn@ycombinator.com (it's a manual process, so write to them only in special cases)

This is a strange submission and probably will not reach the front page, but IMHO it's necessary to report it manually to the mods.

Anyway, if you continue to post similar angry comments in allcaps the mods may notice and ban your account, so better try to fly under the radar for a few days.

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

> The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: civil and substantial.

If you were thinking you got away with the easter egg, you didnt ;) Good job kiddo !

good job you should consider adding links to your profile like github

I wish I had this opportunity at 14. Awesome start. Keep going!

the phone number is not real

In the movies, they use 555 to show a fictional phone number in USA, I don't know if there is something similar in Taiwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)

Since this is not your phone, are you sure that it is not somebody else phone?

well done!

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