{"id":17497,"date":"2026-04-17T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=17497"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:55:30","slug":"legacy-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=17497","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Back in 2005 when my husband (then partner) expressed anger with me when I tripped over a pair of boots in our bedroom and said, “you don’t even know how many boots you have,” that led me to learning “old-school” HTML coding and building my own website bootedman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"I began to catalog my entire boot collection. I began with my cowboy boots<\/a>, then added my motorcycle boots<\/a>, then added my work boots<\/a>, and finished off the boots with displaying my dress boots<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Later, I added my biker gear<\/a> and fetish leather gear<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"\"Later still and as interests and fetishes changed, I added my dress shoe collection<\/a> and men’s business suits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, unfortunately…
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\n… as I remained very, very, “old-school,” I did very little to learn modern coding techniques and refused to use a content management system (such as WordPress) since I thought (wrongly), “I know what I’m doing; this appears fine on my computer.”<\/p>\n

\"\"I did make a few broad changes to try to make the site smartphone-friendly and change it to “https:\/\/” protocol, else google would refuse to index it.<\/p>\n

I kept updating the website over the years, adding new boots, new shoes, removing items I sold or discarded, and otherwise tried to keep up my “inventory” to reflect my boot, shoe, and gear collections accurately.<\/p>\n

But when a page wouldn’t render correctly, and I heard that AI is good at coding, I thought to ask AI to review my site.<\/p>\n

Oh my… not that I am really surprised, but I was unhappy to get these results: <\/p>\n

1) It\u2019s using legacy HTML techniques. The Bootedman website<\/a> is essentially a long-running personal site that dates back to the early web era and has been incrementally updated rather than rebuilt.<\/p>\n

2) Likely “quirks mode” is rendering. If the page is missing a proper modern DOCTYPE, browsers switch into quirks mode, which: changes how widths\/heights are calculated; breaks alignment and spacing; can distort tables and images; that alone can make a page look \u201coff\u201d or inconsistent across browsers.<\/p>\n

3) Mixed or blocked content. Pages on older sites often embed images or scripts using HTTP instead of HTTPS reference external resources that no longer exist.<\/p>\n

4) Deprecated or unsupported scripting (if any) if the page uses old JavaScript patterns (which mine does).<\/p>\n

5) Encoding \/ character issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what to do?<\/p>\n

\"\"I am way beyond having enough patience or, frankly, interest, in learning modern coding. Further, there are literally thousands of pages on my site. Recoding all of them is beyond imagination. Further, I am “frugal,” (aka “cheap”) and don’t want to pay someone to recode all the pages for me.<\/p>\n

If there is some software out there that can do this for me, I might consider that, but not hire a person or company to do that.<\/p>\n

I’ll let the site be what it is, work or not-work as it may, and just rest easy without fretting over it.<\/p>\n

I am open to ideas though from others with more knowledge than my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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