Is this the longest Home page you’ve seen?

Summary

The website "Peace in Practice" (PIP), created in 2003, is an extensive personal project reflecting the creator's passion for writing, love for data/information, and commitment to promoting peace, featuring various interactive elements and resources, despite its aging design and HTML code.

Abstract

The "Peace in Practice" website, established by an individual with a penchant for writing and data, serves as a digital platform for advocating peace. It was crafted with creative aspiration and serious intent in 2003, and while the home page is notably lengthy, it includes functionalities like a Skysa bar for easy navigation. Over the years, the site has maintained its original essence, with only minor changes such as the removal of an annoying scrolling banner. The creator takes pride in having designed the website single-handedly after a brief HTML course, and despite some setbacks in updating the site's resources page, the PIP site continues to reflect the creator's vision for a peaceful world. The website's features, including a guest book, stats counter, and a bookmarking tool, were all obtained for free, showcasing the creator's resourcefulness. Although the site's design and code may be outdated, it remains a cherished expression of the creator's desire for peace, which is deeply intertwined with their identity.

Opinions

The creator expresses a sense of accomplishment and joy in the creation and maintenance of the PIP website.
There is a hint of nostalgia for past web technologies like the "Skysa bar" and "Web Ring."
The creator values interactivity and engagement, as evidenced by the inclusion of a guest book and stats counter.
A level of frustration is conveyed regarding the challenges of updating the website's HTML code and the failed attempts to modernize it.
The removal of the "Ten Million Clicks for Peace" banner suggests a commitment to user experience over promotional tactics.
The creator's dedication to the peace movement is a central theme and driving force behind the website's existence.
There is an element of pride in having built the website with minimal formal training and reliance on free resources.

Is this the longest Home page you’ve seen?

A screenshot of part of the home page of “Peace in Practice”

In 2003 I had a huge lot of fun and creative aspiration and serious intent in creating my own website “Peace in Practice” on the World Wide Web.

Not sure why the Home page goes on and on, but at least I put a Skysa bar at the bottom with a “scroll to the top” function!

I absolutely love writing and for this “gift” I am truly grateful. I used it to put up my PIP site, and because I love data / information also, I delved right into things like a “Skysa bar” (amazing that I still have it enabled / still have a free “account” with Skysa).

The page used to have a yellow diagonal banner across the top right (or was it left) which annoyingly moved down when the poor reader scrolled down featuring “Ten Million Clicks for Peace”.

Needless to say I removed it because it also annoyed me.

I have a Guest Book on it, a Stats Counter, and even a Bookmark applet (or is an apple a baby fruit) thing to easily bookmark the page — all free !

The website has not morphed much over the past 16 years (wow, is it that old), and the HTML code behind the scenes is blooming awful. I did ask for some people on “Fiverr” to re-do a page, e.g. the Resources page for correct display on all browsers, but somehow the deals fell through.

This worried me a bit thinking it must be too big a job. After all, I created the entire website myself — design and content and web elements — after completing a one-day TAFE course on HTML and using FrontPage.

I remember one day I had a fight with my Astrologer (i.e. my astrologer teacher and the guy who did my full Birth Chart for a pretty penny) when he asked me what on Earth the point of my PIP site was.

Maybe that’s when I added the part in the middle about what the Site encourages people to do. The home page also had a beautiful wonderful real-looking Aquarium filled with fish, which was a Widget (free again).

From the stats (via Statcounter, free version) I noted somebody in the USA looking every day at the Home page, until the sad day when the Widget people went into the Sunset, and left widget-land behind. No more website widgets for me of that caliber!

I was in a good old “Web Ring” also, how I loved that. Sadly, they too seem to have fallen by the way-side.

Even though my Home page may be the longest that you (or at least I) have ever seen, it was a joy for me to manifest my intentions for a peaceful world, and I am allowing this eternal sense or core within me to have its presence on the world wide web.

Peace in Practice is a part of me, and I am a part of it.