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A Local News Website Made in the Pre-historic Days

11 points by dyc 16y ago

sbierwagen 16y ago
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.cvilleok.com/tedfrm1.html 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.cvilleok.com/tedfrm1.html http://web.archive.org/web/20060511052754/http://www.cvilleo...
AlexBlom 16y ago
Somebody give this man a job in your startup (and film it)
motters 16y ago
Looks cool. You can never have enough tables.
- powrtoch 16y ago
  Don't forget the frames.
tomjen3 16y ago
You know, there sorts of links are fun and all, but not really HN material.
- tsestrich 16y ago
  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.
aaronbrethorst 16y ago
scary.... http://www.cvilleok.com/2010JulNews/MorganRobertsNationals2.html http://www.cvilleok.com/2010JulNews/MorganRobertsNationals2....
tdfx 16y ago
My poor eyes.
lukeqsee 16y ago
Anybody got a web design company? I think I might have a likely customer for you.
madmaze 16y ago
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/ http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/
VladRussian 16y ago
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.

11 points by dyc 16y ago

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.cvilleok.com/tedfrm1.html 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.cvilleok.com/tedfrm1.html http://web.archive.org/web/20060511052754/http://www.cvilleo...

AlexBlom 16y ago

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

motters 16y ago

Looks cool. You can never have enough tables.

powrtoch 16y ago
Don't forget the frames.

tomjen3 16y ago

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

tsestrich 16y ago
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.

aaronbrethorst 16y ago

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

tdfx 16y ago

My poor eyes.

lukeqsee 16y ago

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

madmaze 16y ago

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/ http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

VladRussian 16y ago

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.