Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?
Several ambitious and promising-sounding sections that will always just say ‘under construction’
A CGI web-counter.
Good luck though, I found one page talking about them, it had 11 dead links to web counter pages.
👉CLICK HERE to E-MAIL👈
Email is the link, not the words click here and certainly not the entire thing.
Being linked to a URL with ~
- 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
Page colors that looked like Skittles vomit.
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.
Hit random on neocities and came up with this:
https://empeethree.neocities.org/
I’d say that’s pretty early 2000s
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 #
mystery-meat imagemap navigation
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’
<marquee>Marquee</marquee>
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
guest book
With a unsecured mysql database in the backend…
