Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?
Hit random on neocities and came up with this:
https://empeethree.neocities.org/
I’d say that’s pretty early 2000s
At least one broken image somewhere
<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
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
Lot of people on neocities.org use them!
Several ambitious and promising-sounding sections that will always just say ‘under construction’
The BLINK tag
Also marquee tag
“Their tags shall blink until the end of days.” - Book of Mozilla, 12:10
Scrolling text
Oh God no, I had forgotten all about that. That’s just evil.
Do it, OP!
My partner has some ideas… https://brosgetstoked.neocities.org/
I love it.
Tell him my favorite is the “visitor number one” part.
I made one as well.
Cool! (Btw I can only get to your website if I remove the www from the link)
“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
A sitemap is still good accessibility practice for e.g. screenreader navigation.
Web Ring link
--------------------------------------- | | | | | | | 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.
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.
