Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?
mystery-meat imagemap navigation
“Under Construction”
“Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher”
“An error has occurred in the script on this page.”
They were everywhere:
“You are visitor #36,738”
custom cursors
text in a colour other than black or white that doesn’t stand out against the background well
refer to yourself as a ‘webmaster’
--------------------------------------- | | | | | | | Frame 1 | | | | | | | | |---------| | | | Frame 3 | | | | | | | | | | | Frame 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------YESS frames
I do miss the simplicity of frames, but I totally get why <div> + CSS replaced it.
Not knowing much about web design, is it just for more flexibility?
I can’t say for sure what the real reason was, but it was rather limiting. There’s a reason why any website that wanted to look even a little bit different used flash, it was just easier to work with back then.
Hmm, okay.
Too much freedom to look however you want has been a bad thing, that can be said for sure. You let a random server render whatever they want to the user, and you get the cancerous slop-clickbait sites that are everywhere now.
Autoplay a song and make the player controls tough to find
Several ambitious and promising-sounding sections that will always just say ‘under construction’
WAIT! I have something for this!
A collection of Geocities sites. Pick a category and enjoy!
guest book
Sitemap
A page with links to your favorite web sites, usually some really popular sites everyone knows.
A FAQ page. Remember to have a snarky fourth wall breaking conversation with your own questions and answers. Don’t actually provide any useful information.
An obnoxious MIDI file playing in the background.
Don’t be afraid to add a lot of GIF images. Some sort of skull or that dancing baby are crucial.
If you really hate your users, implement the whole page in Shockwave.
Page colors that looked like Skittles vomit.
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<marquee>Marquee</marquee>
Don’t forget to add a <blink>Blink</blink> to that marquee!
For me it’s webrings. And, they’re back. I’m in a hurry so fame l can’t research for you, but, they exist.
From what I’d read about it, search engines have become kinda shit, focusing on SEO and paid sponsored results than actually showing what someone searched for, so some small websites form webrings to help people find similar websites/interests while they’re on their site. I think it’s pretty cute/fun.
