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Originally there were no design tools. You literally had a giant textarea and a save button. It wasn't even a rich editor. If you wanted any formatting, you had
by bdcravens 2y ago
Originally there were no design tools. You literally had a giant textarea and a save button. It wasn't even a rich editor. If you wanted any formatting, you had to learn the HTML. (in a time when there was nothing like Stack Overflow and no blogs or Youtube to learn from; Google wasn't even available early on, and the search engines were of varying quality)
If you were advanced, you'd use one of the external editors from the time (Homesite, Hot Metal, Hotdog, or even Microsoft Front Page) and FTP your files in.
- rubidium 2y agoYou got books from the library to figure it out. Better than google slop these days?
- 1659447091 2y agoI spent a lot of time at Barnes & Nobles with a pen and notebook (most of them had a starbucks and newer book editions than my local library). I miss the consolidation of the information and explained what was going on and why while working in a linear fashion. I ended up using the same SQL book for almost a decade (1998/9-ish), kept finding something new in there. I don't miss the 1500+ pages and lack of cmd-F; on the other hand, I gained mad index parsing skills I never got in school.
- themadturk 2y agoThere were always O'Reilly books, which is where I tried to learn HTML.
- bdcravens 2y agoI eventually found what I needed online, but I do remember working out of a copy of HTML for Dummies that I bought at the college bookstore. (1996 is when I got started)