Svet Minimojov / PokéSvet

Simple static websites I made as a child (2007 - 2008)

Oh, the sweet beginnings. Armed with a PSPad editor and HTML book from 1998, I set to design and develop my very first webpage. The topic was Minimoys, fictional creatures created by director and producer Luc Besson - I was a big fan of both the books and movies back then. I think I did a pretty good job recreating the famous three-column layout with tables. There is also a banner (carefully composed in MS Paint), menu with custom styled lists, status bar and footer kindly informing the user, that this page is optimized for resolutions 800x600 pixels or higher and either Firefox 2.0 or Internet Explorer 7 browsers.

I took inspiration from some of my favorite websites at the time (like the Slovak portal about Harry Potter), browsing their source codes and even "borrowing" some cool JavaScript widgets like displaying the current time or name day (I had no idea how these worked). As this was pure HTML and CSS, I had to copy & paste all the common elements to every new page - that's why you can notice slight inconsistencies, as you are reading different sections.

My dad helped me to put it online, utilizing free web hosting space provided by our ISP to their clients. Amazingly, 14 years later, the website is still available and you can fully appreciate the efforts of my 10 years old self (Update: this is no longer the case. The ISP stopped to provide this service in October 2021. Fortunately, I managed to archive the page for your viewing pleasure here.).

There was also a second website of mine around that time, this time dedicated to the Pokemon franchise (called Poké-Svet). However, it is no longer online and I don't have any screenshot, so you will have to take my word for it.

Lessons learned: How to make basic static web pages and style them, DRY principle.