Today I felt like someone had placed me in a rickety Website Wayback Time Machine. We recently took over the hosting of a website as the owner had begun to experience troubles with both his existing host and his website designer/support.

So, we moved the sites, cried at domain registrars etc, and then cried even more once we saw the site itself.

The site had a 1218 x 9200 px background image in order to create a header and left hand menu... and a black background. The actual HTML body was white. It was also set as the background of a table cell quite deep within the page. Picture me, gob smacked.

A quick bit of cropping and some tweaks to the HTML and it was fixed, purely so I wouldn't keep myself awake at night worrying about the bandwidth being pissed away by this 230k monstrosity.

However, as I smiled and began to forget about this black JPEG of doom, I realised I had to make the same changes to each and every single page individually.

Bring back the old days? Sod that.

(PS I would love to attach the background image here, but that would just be telling.)