Posted by al jones on 01/05/07 01:53

On 4 Jan 2007 04:36:37 -0800, Chaddy2222 wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>>
>>> Well you got the quoting part down, but the reply part seems a bit
>>> lacking!
>>
>> He just posted the same query in alt.www.webmaster, where he says he is
>> eleven years old. For some reason, the site doesn't look like something
>> an 11-year-old would produce.
>>
>> I wonder if he is Geoff Hutchison ?
>>
> Hmmm, nah, you can tell that in other ways.
> I will agree though that the site does not really look like something a
> kid of that age would be interested in, it's to plain (and frankly the
> english is not really 11-year old speak and the design is not
> interesting enough for what is assentually (spelling) a gameing site.
> This is a site where bright colours and stuff would really work.

Now, c'mon guys. It's the first web page for a youngster who (I've looked
around some of his other references) seems to have a little more than a bit
of education. Maybe the fact that his english is better than yours makes
you uncomfortable - but having worked with a few 'whiz kids' *I* find them
(lack of a better word) enjoyable.

Would you really have been more accepting of a flashy site, full of
everything that some of the notorious sites have, done striictly in
html/css more believable - I'd have had a heard time believing *that* was
done by an unaided 11 year old. Personally I find this something an 11
year old would/could put together for a first try - and he at least had the
smarts to come to the web groups for a critique (even if he did multipost,
which is a no-no, Danny).

//al

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