Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?
Autoplay a song and make the player controls tough to find
--------------------------------------- | | | | | | | 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.
“Under Construction”
“Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher”
“An error has occurred in the script on this page.”
They were everywhere:
Gotta have a really tacky tiled background JPG.
WAIT! I have something for this!
A collection of Geocities sites. Pick a category and enjoy!
guest book
Also a guest counter.
.wav background music starts playing and maybe you can turn it off. But maybe not.
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.
Oh no way, had to be shitty midi covers of Beatles songs.
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.
“You are visitor #36,738”
Congratulations! You won!
Webrings.
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.
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’
1337 h4x0r 5p34k
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 #
