>>I don't care. Looks good enough on my Nokia E5 (yes, Symbian and a half-card sized screen). One can waste a couple of months every year just keeping up with the latest so-called technologies (aka fads). People do that but then when you look at what takes space in what you bring down the net - among the text, the actual content takes perhaps 2-5% of it, the rest is fancy javascript and other window dressing. I prefer to have minimal decoration and code in there, but gradually build content.
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>>Would you believe that 25-40% of visits come to this page, some of them between 4 and 30 (!) times in a day or two, trying to understand the am/pm puzzle. If you google "značenje am pm" (meaning of), you get that on top. It's disheartening, though, to understand that 15 years of writing and adding content (no matter how otherwise irrelevant) turned out to be less important than this bit which I wrote in ten minutes, even with the generator of the table (which took another ten).
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>There's definitely too much choice for web development these days (hence the original question).
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>I agree about S/N ratio in page contents but we're a couple of rational developer types. Web sites are for more normal people and the touchy-feely coloured-pencil crowd - and if we're being honest, the suppressed emotional parts of us rational types. I remember reading decades ago that persuasion is 20% what you say, and 80% how you say it. Over the years I've found little reason to doubt that, at especially cynical times I've thought the ratio is more like 5%/95%. So maybe it's not unreasonable that web page contents should be 20% content and 80% window dressing ;)


Hey this is the programming threadset! Leave analysis of political talk out of here ;-)