13 July 2007
13 July 2007
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In today's world of webdevelopment it can become very frustrating to start your own website, specially when you have difrent browsers that render your webpage in 10 diffrent ways as Diggnation's Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose explains in the video below!
Back in the days any fool who knew html can create a website and have it render the way it was suppost to look. Hell, we only had 2 browsers to worry about and stanadization wasn't a big factor to consiter. It didn't need to be becuase you were dealing with computers that could only transfer 56k both in and out. Developers were limited to the hardware they used for their presentation and limitations back then made websites ugly and unpalatable for todays standard. In those golden erra's mixing pink, black, and orange would be fabulous, today we frown uppon such discusting color combination.
CSS wasn't a luxury we got to deal with in 1994 becuase like ruby on rails today nobody knew what it even was let alone know of its existance. Yes, 1994 was a lot difrent than today, Denis Rodman was still playing with the Bulls, and Websites were a lot more annoing to look at than to create. You can be good with HTML years ago but today thats not enough to get you're website up to standards.
Its amazing how much has changed in years and if you look at the difrent things a website developer has to learn today and compared it a few years back, you'll notice that what only took a day to learn is now taking months to finish. Not only are there more to learn, but so much that a day of lesson turned into a full course. Today learning how to code is just the tip of the iceburg becuase you also had to be creative with your algorythm and the design aspect as well as userability, and have it comply with several difrent browsers which made getting what you want even more frustraiting than it already is.
So the next time you ask your webdeveloper to make you a webpage, you better have some milk and cookies on a table clustered with $20 dollar bills becuase webdevelopment is not as easy as you may think.
July 2005
