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Post 90s/early 2000s web design tips and content (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I made a website but it's not 90s-feeling enough, could use your help

https://seznahegunma.org/ (visit through VPN or Tor ofc, but the way I have setup doesn't let me even see IPs lol)

I'm going for that Geocities or Angelfire feeling

Also if a Chinese speaker could tell me if I used the right word for "unity of opposites" that would be greatly appreciated kitty-cri-potato

I did not translate it yet but you can use the glosser at https://jboski.lojban.org/ to kinda read it if you want (the dictionary it uses is olddddd though)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Omggg, great advice thank you :3

I would avoid CSS entirely, and that was my initial plan but apparently doing stuff like abusing HTML tables for layout absolutely destroys accessibility sadly (like screen readers don't work right for example)

Current plan is to stick to CSS 1, as specified in 1996, for maximum backwards compatibility. Sometime when I'm feeling better I'm gonna test this thing on my SGI MIPS machine running Netscape 4 hehehe

Also I wonder what kind of ancient ECMAScript stuff I could get up to...... if I want to, unsure what compatibility is like either

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You could go peak period and dig up a copy of Macromedia flash

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Temptinggg

I am trying to pull off a careful balance between modern web browser support and backwards compatibility hehe

I have complicated feelings about Flash :P

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a piece of shit don't use it lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Making me wanna use it smh

"Please download Macromedia Flash to view this website" would be an incredible bit in 2025 though lmao

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I want to make a shitty website now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Make a website filled with those fake software ads that were like "you have 10 viruses pls install our virus"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

https://neocities.org/ is the place to go :3

Or run your own server and domain like me if you're cool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you do implement it, please consider not telling the viewer what video they'll see, and when they go to enormous effort to figure it out, it's a rickroll.