On: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

[devjam]

What a gem! And a few more from the HTML source:

    <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="entrances2hell, entrancestohell, entrances to hell, Hell, Canterbury, Kent,">

As well as a style tag missing a closing '>' on the page template:

    </style

[HeckFeck → devjam]

I noticed this too. Would be a safe bet it was hand crafted in notepad with no syntax highlighting.

Might just feed it to the W3C validator for kicks.

Update: The validator reported 42 errors before giving up:

  Fatal Error: Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored.
  From line 56, column 1; to line 56, column 23
  Verdana">↩<a href="page279.html">This w

[arrowsmith → HeckFeck]

> hand crafted in notepad with no syntax highlighting

Those were the days!

[devjam → arrowsmith]

Save, open FTP/SCP client, copy to webserver, maybe poke/restart a service via SSH, back to browser, refresh... dammit, error, rinse repeat.

We're certainly spoiled having formatting, linting, tests and coverage all run on save these days :-)

[KineticLensman → HeckFeck]

> The validator reported 42 errors before giving up

Giving up? 42! How can you not see this as the sinister interference of Beelzebub!

[wkjagt → KineticLensman]

42 hex in decimal is 66!

[wkjagt → devjam]

When did we stop explicitly welcoming people to websites (literally: “welcome to my website!”) . The same era that “going on the internet” was an actual activity. I miss that. It’s like we all stopped being excited by the web.

[mathieuh → wkjagt]

Everyone's a "brand" these days. I get the same kind of feeling when I see a bio written in the third person but which was clearly written by the person themselves.

[RobotToaster → wkjagt]

>The same era that “going on the internet” was an actual activity. I miss that. I

Now you can never leave.

[nextlevelwizard → wkjagt]

Content should speak for it self. Welcoming people to a website is same as starting a IM conversation with: "hi!".

[wkjagt → nextlevelwizard]

Valid point, but there was something charming and innocent about "the welcome to my website" that I miss.