Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?
WAIT! I have something for this!
A collection of Geocities sites. Pick a category and enjoy!
One page, one really long page, then the links to other pages have to go to under construction, or have 5 lines at most with no menu
“You are visitor #36,738”
Congratulations! You won!
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.
“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.
👉CLICK HERE to E-MAIL👈
Email is the link, not the words click here and certainly not the entire thing.
You evil evil bastard.
.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.
A CGI web-counter.
Good luck though, I found one page talking about them, it had 11 dead links to web counter pages.
--------------------------------------- | | | | | | | Frame 1 | | | | | | | | |---------| | | | Frame 3 | | | | | | | | | | | Frame 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------YESS frames
Gradients
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!
I love that who gets added to the webring is exclusively in competence of the existing members, and it’s just a question of convincing any one of the existing members to link to your site. It’s a mathematical property of their structure and it must lead to some interesting power dynamics.
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 #
guest book
With a unsecured mysql database in the backend…
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.
ahhh, that dastardly Bobby Tables!
animated gifs.
soooo many animated gifs
- use tables for layout, don’t hide the borders and don’t merge them
- also use iframes for root layout
- use the first 16 named css colors only
- only use default serif font in default size, don’t consider wide screens so body copy flows across the whole screen
