Asklemmy

You 100% need a visitor counter at the bottom.

Why are there no sparkles that follow my mousepointer?

Visitor counter

Absolutely needs a hit counter.

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.

Are you in a webring with other 90's websites?

Remember <marquee>? And maybe add some dancing hamsters?

Visitor counter

It's readable on mobile. You need to unfix that immediately. The font must not appear bigger than 5px. Responsive layout is forbidden.

I was fully prepared for the experience from my teens. My first thought was "that loaded way too fast."

Sorry but were you alive in the 90s? That tile background is way too big. Take it down to 128 x 128 anything bigger than that takes too long on my 56k. Also I don't see one frame or table border.

Needs 300% more skull trumpet.

Signed the guestbook :)

I think it could do with a very literal under construction image, with some sort of machinery- every website seemed under construction at the time!

there is a website for a pizza place in seattle whose website does this, maybe you can get some inspiration. dinos

Iframes with more iframes inside.

Every link should open a separate pop up window. Add an under construction gif of a dude digging.

Awards! Everything had awards back then!

For the authentic experience, you need two versions of the site: An Internet Explorer version, and a Netscape version. The two browsers didn't support the same features back then, so a lot of sites would have two different versions.

Also run it on your own server and limit the transfer speed (can set a rate limit in the Nginx config) so it loads slowly :D

Blinkies - those small gifs that blinked to give the impression of glitter.

iframes - precursor to divs, but definitely added that "only works in IE" feel.

More contrast between font color and background image - it's too easy to read.

12pt Times New Roman font - gotta squint to read and default font for everything

Flashy gif banner at your header and footer - bonus points if they're the same image

All urls default to underlined blue and purple.

Mouse cursor with trails. The more sparkles, the better.

Clip art. Clip art everywhere.

Page view counter!

Uppercase all of your html elements in the markup. Image mapped links. A background that doesn't quite tile properly. Max width 800px

And like a gif of a skull opening his mouth that shows a flame "E-mail" materialize from it or something.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

do you have a click counter at the bottom

You need a dancing baby.

Not one person suggested a marquee. Wow.

Granted, the HTML tag is deprecated in the spec, but you can easily set up a marquee using CSS.

Don’t forget at least one banner ad across the top, flashing obnoxiously

Your text is too readable, I think it needs to be aliased a lot more. It also wasn't uncommon to see a black box around text. Your text looks good on the background, it shouldn't. There should be something between the text and background.

Adding some inspiration from well-developed 90s sites via the Wayback Machine.

These will take a while to load and will appear broken. The Wayback Machine is a free service hosted on the Internet Archive and bandwidth isn’t cheap!

• Game Spot in 1996: https://web.archive.org/web/19961222024924/http://www.gamespot.com/
• America Online (AOL) in 1996: https://web.archive.org/web/19961220154856/aol.com
• Alta Vista in 1997: https://web.archive.org/web/19970509000911/http://www.altavista.com/
• Discovery in 1997: https://web.archive.org/web/19970330143007/discovery.com
• Nintendo in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19990125101631/http://www.nintendo.com/
• Tripod (web host like Geocities) in 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990428013840/tripod.com

This list of sites is, of course, from the frame of view of a kid growing up in the United States in the 1990s. I visited a lot of other sites but I can't remember them - I only remember the ones I visited in the early 2000s that didn't exist in the 90s.

cursor trail!

some text

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy Add a Web ring link … even if it’s just a link back to your site

Seems like it's missing one of those section break bars that's an animated rainbow

While the blink html element is no longer supported you could probably sprinkle some JS to toggle the visibility state on the marquee element to really bring back the same feel. It's just not the 90s without blink. Also, there needs to be a page that is just a bunch of links aligned using low res images and tables.

Don’t forget the creepy dancing baby

Design is too mobile responsive

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