Taking the long view.

I quoted Justin Hall on how to prepare web pages four years ago. I'm not sure that was the first time, though I do know it wasn't the last (even before now). The focus of those previous times, however, was on Justin's advice to someone who might want to prepare a web site:

work on it every day.
put in just a half an hour
and see if you can keep yourself to just that.

In this particular context, it's part of the subtitle of that particular page which is, perhaps most telling:

You are about to be let in on the big web secret:
HTML is easy as hell!

Frankly, it was perhaps even easier back then (about ten years ago) because there was less pressure on the independent web publisher to produce "professional" looking pages; the emphasis was more on content than on layout.

Justin was a web pioneer, mapping out territory that others, frequently less successfully, would try to populate. But he wasn't alone in his view of things. It's quite legitimate to claim that the concept of the read/write web was inherent to the original vision of the World Wide Web.

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