Hello … My name is John … I started back in the web’s early days … How many here are old enough to Remember? … America On-line was all the rage. Back in the early days of web browsers where Mosaic was one of the first web browsers… and finally … Netscape came along.
You had to learn HTML back then. Fortunately, html code back then was only a half page long. I used many of the primitive early webdesign programs (remember, we were using dial up modems back then with slow connections … so putting an image on your page could take viewers up to 20 minutes to load).
I used Wordpress for a while, but Wordpress websites load slower and when WP plug ins get finicky, I’d find that if you didn’t keep up with the maintenace, sites would crash.
I had a ton of domains and websites that I let dwindle as after 37 years as a hypnotherapist in NYC, I retired. With what’s going on in the world, old clients calling me, their families stressed out beyond belief. They’re asking me to step out of retirement … and maybe with inflation, that may be a necessary evil.
I used Dreamweaver when it came about … now … In it’s infancy, when you only needed to know HTML, Dreamweaver was great. Then it became more convoluted … with the additions of PHP, CSS and an everchanging yearly list of changing standards. I used Microsoft Frontpage a bit. And I recently found and am learning (slowly) Rapidweaver (so I appreciate everyone’s recommendations and help).
I want to update some of my really old 15 year old (untouched sites) from way back - healthwthhypnosis dot com , johnpetrocelli dot com , and a few fun sites that I did I did for friend’s businesses (and evidentally, they’re still working).
Rapidweaver seems to make it easy … Especially with responsive sites. A few years ago, you had to design a different site for all the different screens, tablets, phones, plus include the code to recognize what the viewer was using … So, I’m excited … I don’t want to learn any more coding …
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
