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Show HN: My first HTML Demo
- nitletonebrian 9y agogood job you should consider adding links to your profile like github
- haloboy777 9y agoThis is really great for first time website.
- timtosi 9y agoThis 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.
- onion2k 9y agoThis 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.
- rqs 9y agoMy 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage
- kinduff 9y agoSame 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities [1] http://dynamicdrive.com/ http://dynamicdrive.com/
- onion2k 9y agoI 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.
- natecavanaugh 9y agoI 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.
- kulu2002 9y agoMS 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'
- randoaccount108 9y agoUhh.. 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.
- krackers 9y agoGreat 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.
- read_if_gay_ 9y agoIt is a good idea to remove your sensitive info (e.g. phone number, last name, mail address) or replace it with bunk.
- AntonyGarand 9y agoDefinetly! 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
- sagebird 9y agoNice 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?
- GlennTheAlien 9y agohover over it (I used the abbr property for it)
- randoaccount108 9y agoAhh, I have been trolled. HN needs a specific report button, even for young accounts, because duh, this post.
- gus_massa 9y agoIf 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 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.
- neya 9y agoThis 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 ;)
- nielsole 9y agoNice 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 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_American_School
- GlennTheAlien 9y agoif u read carefully, they say only students without foreign passport, which I do (Canadian)
- randoaccount108 9y agoDERP DERP DERP DREP THIS IS A BOT THREAD what do you have to do to trigger HN's algos for bots and generics?
- z3t4 9y agoNext 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.
- randoaccount108 9y agoFUCK FUCK FUCK HN REPORT PLEASE Srysly, when does this thread get tagged as spam?
- smcl 9y agoI'm confused - what's going on? Is the submitter meant to be a bot account trying to accumulate upvotes or something?
- yorwba 9y agoI think this rando was confused by the realization that there are children on the internet who read HN and want to share something with the group of people on here. Personally, I think it's interesting to see what kids these days are up to. There was a game written by a 12-year-old on HN this week that was quite good; and at least one JS framework with actual users that made the HN frontpage is maintained by a 13-year-old.
- sctb 9y agoPlease stop posting like this or we'll ban you. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- partycoder 9y agoFrom 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.
- m00dy 9y agoThis is what I did when I was 13. :) https://web.archive.org/web/20050503103013/http://eren13.8k.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050503103013/http://eren13.8k....
- alaq 9y agoGood times! I find out that my first one is still up: http://lacquemant.free.fr/ http://lacquemant.free.fr/
- biiirdtime 9y agoI 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!
- GlennTheAlien 9y agothe phone number is not real
- gus_massa 9y agoIn 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) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number) Since this is not your phone, are you sure that it is not somebody else phone?
- hungerstrike 9y agoLooks 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.
- Gigacore 9y agoCool stuff, Glenn! Keep doing and you'll go places!
- kulu2002 9y agoReally super stuff. Especially if this is your first time with HTML.
- krapp 9y agoLooks good. One bit of advice - replace the background image with a solid color. A busy background image can make the text difficult to read.
- skocznymroczny 9y agoLooks 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.
- solarkraft 9y agoDon't forget those <blink> tags.
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- Waterluvian 9y agoI wish I had this opportunity at 14. Awesome start. Keep going!
- wingerlang 9y agoWhile 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..
- Ancient 9y agoGreat 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 https://codecombat.com
- pinkskip 9y agowell done!
- agnivade 9y agoIf you were thinking you got away with the easter egg, you didnt ;) Good job kiddo !