Enjoyed this story a lot. The reality is old tech works fine in many cases, and it may not be worth it for a small business to replace things like you discussed. Using modern HTML and CSS with a sprinkle of JS will take you a long way. I think there is a fixation on large scale businesses these days, and we forget about smaller businesses with simpler needs and less resources.
I did my final year college project in ASP, even though ASP.NET was around, because I got a well-written book on it in a sale bin and I was a poor student! I wish I had the code to look over it now. Glad to head Fantask is still going. As a comic-book lover, I will look to visit if I make it to Copenhagen. Thanks for sharing 😀
I'm a web developer, graphic designer, type designer, musician, comicbook-geek, LEGO-collector, food lover … as well as husband and father, located just south of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Thanks! I agree, small businesses cannot afford the multitude of services required to run a modern webshop, if it's more than a few hundred products. And please do visit Fantask! It's been on the same corner in Copenhagen for almost 50 years, and has been visited by many famous artists through the years: Stan Lee, Carl Barks, Will Eisner etc.!
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Enjoyed this story a lot. The reality is old tech works fine in many cases, and it may not be worth it for a small business to replace things like you discussed. Using modern HTML and CSS with a sprinkle of JS will take you a long way. I think there is a fixation on large scale businesses these days, and we forget about smaller businesses with simpler needs and less resources.
I did my final year college project in ASP, even though ASP.NET was around, because I got a well-written book on it in a sale bin and I was a poor student! I wish I had the code to look over it now. Glad to head Fantask is still going. As a comic-book lover, I will look to visit if I make it to Copenhagen. Thanks for sharing 😀
Thanks! I agree, small businesses cannot afford the multitude of services required to run a modern webshop, if it's more than a few hundred products. And please do visit Fantask! It's been on the same corner in Copenhagen for almost 50 years, and has been visited by many famous artists through the years: Stan Lee, Carl Barks, Will Eisner etc.!