Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?
“Under Construction”
“Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher”
“An error has occurred in the script on this page.”
They were everywhere:
Site map
Web Ring link
A sitemap is still good accessibility practice for e.g. screenreader navigation.
--------------------------------------- | | | | | | | 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 servers render whatever they want to the user, and you get the cancerous slop-clickbait sites that are everywhere now.
Two paragraphs talking about how great you feel about finally getting on the World Wide Web. Include as many typos as possible.
A dozen links to other websites (make sure at most only 2 of them actually work).
Excessive use of the BLINK tag in titles.
Copy and paste some random Ascii art but make sure not to use the right font so nothing aligns properly.
Real Audio music files.
WAIT! I have something for this!
A collection of Geocities sites. Pick a category and enjoy!
“You are visitor #36,738”
Congratulations! You won!
Repeating background texture that makes the text a bit hard to read. Begging visitors to sign the guestbook. ‘Under construction’ gif for pages that aren’t done yet. Autoplay midi (probably not possible nowadays).
Tiled backgrounds but not repeating pattern
Autoplay a song and make the player controls tough to find
👉CLICK HERE to E-MAIL👈
Email is the link, not the words click here and certainly not the entire thing.
You evil evil bastard.
I tried so many times to make sense of this reply LOL
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.
Lot of people on neocities.org use them!
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.
Guest log.
Web rings.
“Secret” links like clicking on an unassuming graphic takes you to a secret page.
Contact info that includes a fax machine phone #
“Secret Links”, Like that one scene in that Sandra Bullock hacker movie, The Net.
https://triviahappy.com/articles/welcome-to-the-net-every-webpage-from-the-1995-movie-the-net
Dancing baby gif somewhere on the page is a must.
A random button that directs you to “You Are An Idiot” hosted on albinoblacksheep.com
Bonus points if you can get it to look like it’s still running on Shockwave flashMaybe a geocities domain?
@[email protected] @[email protected]
Geocities is required!It doesn’t exist anymore you’ll have to settle for neocities.org!
An image gallery for no apparent reason with photos of your pets and family with no apparent image size or dimension consistency. Different fonts on everything often in different colours. Random string of emojis that are not of the standard type (there wasn’t a standard yet). A background of a single colour or simple repeating pattern.
Ha. And everyone has red eyes.
.wav background music starts playing and maybe you can turn it off. But maybe not.
Oh no way, had to be shitty midi covers of Beatles songs.
Random fact: modern browsers don’t seem to allow you to autoplay songs when you first visit a page, but it’s possible to autoplay music when you navigate to another page on the same domain.
guest book
With a unsecured mysql database in the backend…
ahhh, that dastardly Bobby Tables!
My provider has a shared CGI script that added the post at a special tag in your HTML file.
…and because of poor permission handling everyone just had write permissions to these files for anyone to edit.
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’
We have a webmaster where I work!
To be fair, there is quite some static web presence to maintain.
