Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?
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.
Gradients
.wav background music starts playing and maybe you can turn it off. But maybe not.
A CGI web-counter.
Good luck though, I found one page talking about them, it had 11 dead links to web counter pages.
Remember shoutboxes?
👉CLICK HERE to E-MAIL👈
Email is the link, not the words click here and certainly not the entire thing.
Several ambitious and promising-sounding sections that will always just say ‘under construction’
animated gifs.
soooo many animated gifs
“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
- 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
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.
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.
--------------------------------------- | | | | | | | Frame 1 | | | | | | | | |---------| | | | Frame 3 | | | | | | | | | | | Frame 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------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 #
The BLINK tag
Also marquee tag
