Chicken Girl

but it will never replace my vanity website featuring "here is a picture of my guinea pig"

Heathen Dawn

Cute one, CG!

Gurdur

I might, except I would be too afraid of being spammed.


Naw, I prefer hamsters to guinea pigs.

sweep

the last Guinea Pig in our family, resided in a two by two foot box at the foot of my bed. To be fair we did let it out to chew the tassles off all our upholstry. It got to the point where he would squeak and we would respond by pouring grains into his dish. The problem was, none of us really cared that much and all the members of our family would pass the responsibility to one another: 'It's your guinea pig!- no. It's yours!'

one day the squeaking stopped and we wondered why. I peered into 'Hermans' little home and lo, there he lay, by a waterbowl full of sawdust, eyes shut, dried tongue stuck out.

We decided we didn't deserve to keep rodents.

Godless Dave

Ignore the above. Just visit my blog!

Heathen Dawn

Ah, how I love looking down upon blogs! Blogs are written by lamers who don’t know [or are too lazy to type] a scrap of HTML. It takes a real man to erect a website and write HTML properly, according to the standards. HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD with CSS, that’s what I author. By hand, everything by hand, with a text editor—not those WYSIWYG crapola programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver, which make the job a little easier, at the expense of making a total non-standard mess out of the underlying HTML.

(end self-aggrandisation)

Chicken Girl

I use FrontPage.

Sorry.

Heathen Dawn

I already knew that. Just a quick look at the source code shows “Microsoft Frontpage” as the generator of the files:


<META NAME=GENERATOR CONTENT="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">


It works on Internet Explorer. It also works on Mozilla. But it’s not standards-compliant HTML. It doesn’t validate in the W3C Validator. It looks quite untidy in Lynx, the text-only browser. Not many people use Lynx today, but this blind way is how indexing robots, speech browsers and Braille browsers read the web. It’s about accessibility. Yours is a graphical site, so blind people won’t mess with it anyway, but my website is meant to be read by all people—including the blind. Oh well, at least you didn’t neglect to put ALT text in your IMG tags.

Fact is, I’m not an HTML purist so I could look down upon people, I’m an HTML purist because I think standard HTML, with presentation set off in a separate (CSS) file, is most beneficial to a website. Looking down upon people who generate nonstandard HTML is only a fringe benefit.

mongrel

You're using the wrong kind of sauce, then.

Arken

Meanie.