As you've might seen today, I've launched a new front-end of my website for old browsers, made completely with Microsoft FrontPage 2003, and well, today I'll be telling the type of bugs I had to go through…

 

The begining

 

At the start it was pretty nice, I had the “Split” view enabled since I wasn't so sure about the whole WYSIWYG and that stuff, it was kinda nice and I did a nice test page, but then the problems arose..

 

The navegation bar

 

If you are vieweing this on the modern website, this is how it looks like:

 

 

And oh boy, it was sure painful to get everything right…

 

Here are some screenshots of me not getting it to work cuz I have no idea how to explain it:

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see, it was trial and error to get the navbar..bar to get fully working, which took 7 hours between 2 days of fixing…yeah I could do it in like 15 mins or so but nah this took me that amount of time. Insane.

 

Not only it didn't just want to put the text properly, I had to come up with some weird fixes for it to even go to the max of the screen like it does now.

 

Blog, and centering, too

 

You thought the blog didn't have its issues, nah, it did.

 

Even tho I don't have more screenshots of it, it was kind of pain to make the blog homepage work, here's another example

 

 

Yeah things also refused to center properly, as you can see here:

 

 

Something that always annoyed me is that the Design mode is not really accurate to the preview, which made debugging it like 10x harder.

 

Lists/bullets didn't want to work either with the fix I added which was weird..

 

When I was done with the navbar + blog, I just went to port everything else which was easy, I made the Projects and Socials page be lists cuz I'm NOT bothering to make the goddamn boxes after all I did for a single box.

 

Conclusion

 

In the end, everything went out alright, it's just that I suck with WYSIWYG, mainly because I'm already used to coding in general.