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 #
guest book
With a unsecured mysql database in the backend…
ahhh, that dastardly Bobby Tables!
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.
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.
An image gallery for no apparent reason with photos of your pets and family with no apparent image size or dimension consistency. Different fonts on everything often in different colours. Random string of emojis that are not of the standard type (there wasn’t a standard yet). A background of a single colour or simple repeating pattern.
Ha. And everyone has red eyes.
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
👉CLICK HERE to E-MAIL👈
Email is the link, not the words click here and certainly not the entire thing.
Dancing baby gif somewhere on the page is a must.
A random button that directs you to “You Are An Idiot” hosted on albinoblacksheep.com
Bonus points if you can get it to look like it’s still running on Shockwave flashMaybe a geocities domain?
A CGI web-counter.
Good luck though, I found one page talking about them, it had 11 dead links to web counter pages.
.wav background music starts playing and maybe you can turn it off. But maybe not.
Oh no way, had to be shitty midi covers of Beatles songs.
<marquee>Marquee</marquee>
Don’t forget to add a <blink>Blink</blink> to that marquee!
animated gifs.
soooo many animated gifs
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">
midi version of some popular (or relevant to whatever fandom the site is about) 90s song autoplaying and looping in the background
Autoplay a song and make the player controls tough to find
