Late 1990s Web Design

http://teengirlfantasy.angelfire.com/main.html Best webdesign ever. Awesome band though.

 

Are you making a website that's suppose to look like an old 90s website or not? Be consistent dammit!

 

was just going to suggest getting a really old copy of frontpage

 

Consistent? Ahhhhhh I don't want it to be designed by a 10 year old if that's the sort of 90s you are thinking of!

Is the learning curve difficult with FrontPage? I've never used it before. I always used to use either notepad or HotDog Professional.
I can still remember the startup theme for HotDog too! Looks like their website needs a little bit of maintenance...

I have, however been busy at work and am trying to implement a simple PHP based blog with 1 column, but am having trouble.
Then I thought, there's still space on the menu bar - so in went a guestbook link.
If anyone has suggestions for a very blog or guestbook, fire away!
I am looking for a blog that does support YouTube video embedding though, I did have one but something didn't work.
aaaaaaaaand I'm trying to avoid MySQL databases and the like!

 

Do 10 year olds even know about Creative Commons? Anyway, Creative Commons is too late for a website that's suppose to look like it's from the 90s, it would be like seeing an iPod in a cowboy movie!

 

You'd be surprised. I was watching a YouTube video by some 8 year old on how to manipulate images in Photoshop...
Kids these days! They just don't make them like they used to! :dejection:

 

i like website design from the past, compared to the bloated bullshitoverdose we get now,

 

Well yeah, you've got some powerful, easy-to-use tools available these days. Back in the 90s, not only where these tools not available, but there were multiple technical limitations, the biggest being everyone was on dial-up. That, and nobody knew what the hell they were doing!

 

aaah the good ol days of "get off the internet i need to use the damn phone" Delta Force 1 multiplayer VIA dialup was awesome lol

 

Fun project.
Some tips for getting that 90's web design feel.

Animated GIF's, most pages used them. They where cool and one of few elements that was moving on the screen if you ignore blink and text scrolling. Images should be small an use the highest compression to get that common jpeg artifacts. And image 320x240 is way to big for the web. And only use web safe colors. Many user could only view 256 color from a specific palette and most web designers of the day only used these so called web safe color to ensure that most users could view the page as intended. Web pages need to be small remember that most users during the 90's used 28k or 56k modems. So we pages larger than 35kb of data where considered big and slow. And remember that many users had a screen resolution on 640x480 pixels. And layouts are designed with tables. DIV's what is that?

If your thinking about late 90's then you will need to add a lot of blinking AD's and change the common resolution to 800x600 pixels.

And if you are looking for the typical tasteless hompage look then you need to add some animated lanterns and dark background and blinking pink text.

 

It's progressing along so nicely I've made it live.
RetroJunkie.net - now with even less content than before!

Any more suggestions on these cool buttons for the footer?
I believe I used to have an ICQ one that showed my online / offline status - good times! :smile-new:

 

I hope that's a Perl counter!

It's all PHP? WTF?! Nobody used PHP in the Nineties! lol

*EDIT* And those PNG vector logos - nonono! You need logos in GIF format scanned out of a magazine! And low resolution, for 33k modems!

 

I can't believe ICQ is still around, or that technically it outlived MSN Messenger :wink-new:

 

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Hahha, I'm loving the new design actually such a blast from the past! By the way, update your XBOX Wiki link, it's old now

 

Is MSN messenger dead? I stopped using it a few years ago simply because everyone was on Facebook and usually left FB open in a tab it seems.

I know AIM is dead now :/

 

MSN was killed off and its accounts were merged into Skype a few months ago.

 

Uhh... what? No it isn't. The last release was in March, it's still running and still works via ICQ, too.

http://www.aim.com/

 

well it was http://gizmodo.com/5893031/aim-is-unofficially-dead

then i guess this happened after I already stopped caring

 

MSN is dead, because you can't connect to the service any more. AOL never removed the software from their websites, nor turned the servers off, so it's never been dead.

That's like saying Myspace is dead.... it isn't, but nobody uses it any more.