# Web Design for the Clinically Insane Obsessive-Compulsive

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-design-for-the-clinically-insane-obsessive-compulsive/516075>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 2, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-design-for-the-clinically-insane-obsessive-compulsive/516075 "2009-11-02T18:13:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-design-for-the-clinically-insane-obsessive-compulsive/516075/61 "2009-11-05T22:47:15Z")

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> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
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> And this part makes me go WTF?! It a mass of \<font\> tags, hex color specifications, CSS calls, bolds, and “lesser than/greater than” signs surrounding … absolutely nothing. It looks like a bunch of content was deleted, but the HTML editing software left all the modifying tags in place. Since this is all on a single line of HTML code, it almost looks as if there was a sentence there, _with the style elements applied each word individually_…

But you _have_ to have all your spaces the right font and colour!

> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
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> ETA: Scrolling further through the code, I’m starting to doubt FrontPage was involved. There’s a bunch of Linux propaganda buried in there between more huge blocks of orphaned tags.

So she’s a left-wing kook! Makes a nice change!

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-design-for-the-clinically-insane-obsessive-compulsive/516075/62 "2009-11-05T23:32:32Z")

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I used to be a huge fan of FrontPage.

When it first came out, I was a freelance web designer, and I made quite a bit of money fixing sites that were designed on FrontPage. They frequently didn’t work right on any platform other than Windows with Internet Explorer–and they _barely_ worked on that.

A typical cleanup of a 60K FrontPage file would take it down to about 10K.

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