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$Id: FAQ.Old_Style_Web_Design.txt,v 1.9 2020/12/02 21:38:13 gilles Exp gilles $
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This document is also available online at
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https://imapsync.lamiral.info/FAQ.d/
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https://imapsync.lamiral.info/FAQ.d/FAQ.Old_Style_Web_Design.txt
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Imapsync and its ugly website style
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Q. Why the imapsync website looks so old fashion?
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R. Once in a while I receive messages from people complaining about
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the website style, not that much about the content by the way,
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as people don't read.
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I know the imapsync website has a grandmother style,
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I'm not offended by complaints about it.
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Here are several reasons it stays like that for now:
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* I like to do things myself
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* I am lazy
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* I like static web.
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Although you could argue that I do use some dynamic things, like SSI.
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That's true, I use Server Side Include, aka SSI, denoted by the ".shtml"
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extention of some files, instead of the classical ".html" extention.
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It's because I like dynamic web when the dynamic brings something that
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can't be done easily with static files.
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2020-04-11 01:15:57 +02:00
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* I'm proud to be w3c compliant
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https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fimapsync.lamiral.info
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Very very few sites are w3c compliant, it's because nearly all CMS frameworks aren't.
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Only true crazy people are w3c compliant seekers. I'm one of them.
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If you know a CMS w3c compliant, tell me, it will be such a crazy news.
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If you know any web site w3c compliant, tell me, it will be crazy news as well.
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Update: https://contao.org/ is a CMS and it is w3c compliant! This is astonishing!
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(Thanks to Markus Rupprecht for this crazy input!)
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2020-04-11 01:15:57 +02:00
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* I prefer to spend more time on the product itself than the showcase
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* The product is a command line, a fancy website to sell a command line
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makes more disappointed buyers
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I agree I could do some sort of A/B experiment and see whether during
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a month I sell more imapsync on a brand new style B site than
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the current A one.
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Besides, don't misunderstand buyers. The surprising thing about complainers
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is that all are web designers, none of them is a user not in the webdesign branch.
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2020-04-11 01:15:57 +02:00
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I even received some phone call from a buyer saying: "I saw your website
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and I told to myself: this can't be a fake one, the product must be a good one".
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Another folk like me:
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http://keyhut.com/pos.htm
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(well, not w3c compliant, he is not that mad)
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So maybe one day...
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