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Unpopular opinion: my GeoCities page was better before I learned to code
Back in 1997 I had a fan page for the band Live on GeoCities, area 51/SunsetStrip or something like that, and it was just tables and blinking text and a midi file that played I Alone on loop. Then a guy in a webring chat, screen name WebWizard_Rick, told me my site looked "amateur" and that real pages used frames and image maps. So I spent two weekends rebuilding it with a triple frame setup and a 40KB background image, and my hits dropped from about 300 a week to like 40. People couldn't bookmark the pages, the midi broke in Netscape, and I got one email from a girl in Ohio saying she missed the old layout. Rick was wrong and I never rebuilt it back. Did anyone else get talked out of a perfectly good page by some self-appointed web expert?
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