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Nostalgia
I just found this page where I whine about search engine placement of my first website (which was a Harry Potter roleplaying game). It's from the summer of 2004, which means I was about 13 years old (I'm 19 now).
I also looked up what my page looked like at the time that I was complaining about other people's, and I'm a little surprised to find that the concept was pretty good (for example, I made my little sister pose outside to achieve this gif which is supposed to look like the moving portraits in Harry Potter). The graphics were pretty low-quality and amateur and my front page is long-winded and riddled with spelling mistakes and unprofessional language. However, all of my images have alt tags, I have a favicon, my styles are all hand-written and in an external style sheet, and it's tables-free. I'm pretty sure that image is such shitty quality because I optimized the hell out of it to keep the filesize small because people actually used dial-up in 2004. I probably got first page for that search result on account of my being possibly one of the only 13-year-olds in 2004 to care about search engine optimization. I remember sort of obsessively stalking my place in the search rankings, hence that post.
Obviously I was made to be a web designer. And I was a loser all along.
I also looked up what my page looked like at the time that I was complaining about other people's, and I'm a little surprised to find that the concept was pretty good (for example, I made my little sister pose outside to achieve this gif which is supposed to look like the moving portraits in Harry Potter). The graphics were pretty low-quality and amateur and my front page is long-winded and riddled with spelling mistakes and unprofessional language. However, all of my images have alt tags, I have a favicon, my styles are all hand-written and in an external style sheet, and it's tables-free. I'm pretty sure that image is such shitty quality because I optimized the hell out of it to keep the filesize small because people actually used dial-up in 2004. I probably got first page for that search result on account of my being possibly one of the only 13-year-olds in 2004 to care about search engine optimization. I remember sort of obsessively stalking my place in the search rankings, hence that post.
Obviously I was made to be a web designer. And I was a loser all along.
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At 13 I was doing Spring Awakening banners, headers and icons by request. I might have made one for you, actually (lol.)
Geeks are awesome.
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It was actually really educational.