So does the author want this to be a place for quirky fun by people who aren't web experts, or for srs designers? That My Little Pony page they linked to might scale better than a LAMP stack, but I'll guarantee it took more expertise to create. People who don't know CSS but have interesting things to say are much better served by a service like, well, tumblr - which allows plenty of customization, but also allows you to simply write, and have it look reasonable, with the attention on your actual content. There's certainly value in a site that only serves static files and thus has low expenses, but to attract the geocities demographic I'd want some kind of friendly editing frontend - even github pages is a huge step forward from editing HTML by hand.
From reading it, it sounds like it's for both. GeoCities wasn't just about quirky fun, there was some actually decent websites.
GeoCities wasn't about things being super friendly, it had a learning curve there. You had to sit down and read up on HTML and write it up and iterate on your failures, and maybe people don't want that anymore but at least someone is offering another way.
Back in the day it felt like most GeoCities sites were made with FrontPage or Dreamweaver. Do they even exist any more? Would those kind of static sites be acceptable on today's web?
I actually kind of miss static sites. These days everything seems to be about pumping out new content, like a newspaper, whereas static sites were more like books. They had chapters, an order to read, table of contents... you explored them, rather than just read through them backwards.
I think both do in various forms. I'm sure they'd be acceptable to the 90% of people who aren't involved in the tech scene, or are overly fussed on design.
Ha, what a strange place to find my weekend project[1] appearing on. I didn't put it up on that site, though I don't really mind it being there. If you look on the bottom of the page, you'll find the source on GitHub, and yes, it does take a bit more expertise than reading "HTML for Dummies" to create.
Surprising you should mention GitHub pages, because that's where the original is hosted on.
Was geocities ever that? It was great for finding these in-depth pages about ridiculously obscure topics (trains on a particular branch line that only ran 1962-1963 or whatever), but IIRC almost all the visual design was decidedly pedestrian.
>It was great for finding these in-depth pages about ridiculously obscure topics
Where did the people who made those sites go anyway? (Who were they?) Millionsort implies that they got buried under a couple tons of SEO and search engine manipulation.
