Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?
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!
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.
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.
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 #
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.
👉CLICK HERE to E-MAIL👈
Email is the link, not the words click here and certainly not the entire thing.
<marquee>Marquee</marquee>
Don’t forget to add a <blink>Blink</blink> to that 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
- 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
A CGI web-counter.
Good luck though, I found one page talking about them, it had 11 dead links to web counter pages.
Autoplay a song and make the player controls tough to find
Webrings.
“You are visitor #36,738”
Congratulations! You won!
Page colors that looked like Skittles vomit.
1337 h4x0r 5p34k
mystery-meat imagemap navigation
Animated dividers. Like the blood dripping bar or the pulsing neon one. Or both if you were me.
