All Thanks to Neopets

*Urg.*  I actually used to be mildly literate in html and css coding, thanks to plenty of time spent on... *don't laugh*... Neopets.  

Really.  

*Now I feel like the picture above after trying to decipher even the simplest of coding.

Long story short, each of the "petpages" had default layout/coding, based upon the "species" of that particular pet, that a user had to edit if they wanted it customized in any way.  There were also "user lookups" to be edited.  Oh, and "guild" (sort of like little online...er, clubs? gatherings?) layouts too.

If we wanted a box that was a certain size and color, the coding for that had to be done from scratch.  Should a user want an image to be moved to a different area on the page, he/she had to alter the coding - again, by hand.  Likewise, say I wanted an text link - yup, you guess it... I would have to write the coding myself.  

The only guides we had were basic tutorials on the Neopets website and templates on third party sites, the latter of which still required some rudimentary html knowledge.  Sure, it was annoying as heck if you were a beginner; but most people quickly learned the very foundations (and in some cases progressed to highly advanced) html coding and such.

>:| It's been at least 4 years since I've laid hands on any petpage or user lookup coding...