Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?
You need a banner ad where you have to punch the monkey to win a prize, and it changes the mouse pointer icon.
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.
Dankpods the Youtuber made one. Take a look: https://www.dingusland.fun/
<marquee>Marquee</marquee>
Don’t forget to add a <blink>Blink</blink> to that marquee!
That tag hasn’t been operable in a zillion years
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
frames
old html tags like marquee that might not work anymore
under construction
webring links
hardcode it to 800x600
that setting i forget the name of where the background image is static but everything else scrolls
I thought it was called watermark or something, but supposedly it’s an IE-only setting called fixed:
<body background="bg.jpg" bgproperties="fixed">You can implement it with modern css.
midi version of some popular (or relevant to whatever fandom the site is about) 90s song autoplaying and looping in the background
Important that it resets when you click a link.
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?
@Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com @wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
Geocities is required!It doesn’t exist anymore you’ll have to settle for neocities.org!
Guest log.
Web rings.
“Secret” links like clicking on an unassuming graphic takes you to a secret page.
“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
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.
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.
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.
Scrolling text
Oh God no, I had forgotten all about that. That’s just evil.
Do it, OP!
--------------------------------------- | | | | | | | 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.
“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.
