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I'm sad they didn't even talk about Macromedia flash, Microsoft frontpage and Dreamweaver.

• vesinisa 3y ago
  They do mention FrontPage though. As far as I can remember, FrontPage was pretty nice. I built my first home page with it. I wanted to (visually) best all of my friends on IRC. So I designed how I wanted the page to look in (an obviously pirated copy of) PaintShop Pro. A sort of an embossed oval with navigation links on the perimeter, with all the page content appearing inside the magic oval. But to wrangle such layout to HTML was not easy in the late 90s. I eventually managed to find out that other pages used <table> elements to force position stuff. FrontPage allowed me to stitch the individual images from PSP to a table in a WYSIWYG environment - I don't think teenager me would have had the patience nor understanding to ever do it without FrontPage. When I evenetually got it to render without glitches in IE I was _so_ proud. The only complaint to my GUESTBOOK I got was from some guy using "lynx" (a CLI web browser) who said navigation was impossible. I only later learned about the "alt" attribute for non-visual users. Not sure if FrontPage would've even allowed me to set it though.