Re: Making a 90s Website (waffle)     04/07/23
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User waffle over at midnight pub asked about making a 90's website[1].
I was there, waffle... making crappy websites for money!

Here are my tips:

1. Think in terms of tables. Kind of like css grid layouts, except not
at all. Mentally chop your content up into rows and columns, and make
liberal use of colspan and rowspan. Don't be afraid of borders,
they're pretty. OR, drop the borders and use background images in the
cells, which you can chop up with old software. It's called "slicing"
and it was all the rage in the 90s.

2. Background gifs! Tileable textures. 'nuf said.

3. Cute little badges at the bottom of your page. "Made on a Mac" or
"Designed for Netscape" and the like. There are thousands of them out
there to choose from, the more you use, the cooler you are.

4. Frames are great, almost as cool as tables and slicing. You can use
them for navigation.

For more ideas, check out this gem:

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

I used to submit to this guy regularly! Browse through the archives,
you'll find some real gold on how to make a sucky 90's website and do
everything wrong. But, you'll be doing it on purpose for fun!

And make sure to post your results so we can pay our respects!

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