What should I add to my '90s website?
So I’m currently toying around with NeoCities, and decided to trial it by building your classic mid '90s Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire pastiche website.
Some of the most important elements are already in place.
Tile background? Large font? Heading in bright pink with a shadow? Unusual colour choices? Random cat gifs? Under construction gif? Check! Check! Check!
In the true spirit of the '90s DIY web, some more pages (including the links page) are coming soon.
(I’m thinking of adding a page dedicated to either Britney or a nu-metal band.)
You can see the page so far here: https://that90ssite.neocities.org/
There are a few things that I want to add to make it complete, and I’m looking for suggestions.
The first, is to embed a midi file that plays automatically. Any suggestions on the best way of doing this?
Second, it’s just not going to be complete without a guestbook.
Third, any webring suggestions?
Fourth, what’s the best way of adding a java chat room in 2024?
Finally, anything else that really needs to be a part of a great '90s website?
UPDATE: Thanks for all the feedback! I’ve added more annoying GIFs, a guestbook, a links page, and a cyber cat hangout.
UPDATE 2: And added even more gifs, an amazing Amiga demo, and a ton of links.
Awards! Everything had awards back then!
You need to add some text with the RuneScape
glow1:wave:text effectIt should work at 640x480 and no other resolution.
There is not enough contrast or too much contrast between your text and the background.
What I’m trying to say is that is too easy on the eyes to read the text. 😂
Yes, the background pattern and colours should be chosen to actively interfere with reading any text on the page. For example, it’s great if there’s large patches of black in the background and the text is also black.
Flashing is also key. A lot of text should be flashing and there should be unreadable ticker tape text at random places.
My wife just added that it should have some background music.
<marquee>some text</marquee>
<embed src=“somesong.mid”>
Modern browsers have dropped support for the marquee tag, so you’ll have to reimplement it in JavaScript.
@neidu2 Done :)
I don’t exactly remember, but it’s possible to have the embed start automatically and not show the player. I would suspect that <embed src=“ugfyi.mid” autoplay=“true” hidden=“true”> is at least partially correct or similar.
Guestbook, hit counter, a midi file playing in the background, and a dead hyperlink to another page of the same website.
Edit: omg I can’t believe I forgot about marquees. Do that too.
Don’t forget the creepy dancing baby
Needs 300% more skull trumpet.
My favorite version of the skull trumpet: Makes a man go doot doot
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
@ajsadauskas @asklemmy Add a Web ring link … even if it’s just a link back to your site
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@JimmyBigSausage I’m not sure if you’re replying to the right comment here?
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Holy shit it’s been a while since I’ve seen that gif
I just teared up a little.
Remove adaptive formatting, fixed width everything. Why should you care about my browser and screen size? That was part of why the pages looked more clunky in later years: the increase in screen resolution were not taken into account, so that pages sat tinily in the top left of the screen. Generally, lack of useful formatting was widespread. Just writing the text into naked HTML, having a few links (in default blue/purple) and you’re good to go. I’m not sure if bullet points were even used.
Once you add some content, put it into a default HTML table without added styling. I don’t even know if browsers still display these shitty gray bars, but you saw them everywhere.
And if you want to look professional, of course use frames! Preferably with fixed sites, too much text in them and scrollbars everywhere…
:funnytagthatonlytranslatedtoanemojionaspecificbulletinboard:
I remember feeling like a webdesign master when I figured out frames. I was always more of a backend guy (perl + CGI = ❤️), but frames enabled me to produce pretty decent looking websites.
<frame>😠<?php include?>😒<?php include_once?>🥳<?php 😫
Honestly, ikr lol
Needs a blink tag and some old style Microsoft Word art.
