What should I add to my '90s website?
So I’m currently toying around with NeoCities, and decided to trial it by building your classic mid '90s Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire pastiche website.
Some of the most important elements are already in place.
Tile background? Large font? Heading in bright pink with a shadow? Unusual colour choices? Random cat gifs? Under construction gif? Check! Check! Check!
In the true spirit of the '90s DIY web, some more pages (including the links page) are coming soon.
(I’m thinking of adding a page dedicated to either Britney or a nu-metal band.)
You can see the page so far here: https://that90ssite.neocities.org/
There are a few things that I want to add to make it complete, and I’m looking for suggestions.
The first, is to embed a midi file that plays automatically. Any suggestions on the best way of doing this?
Second, it’s just not going to be complete without a guestbook.
Third, any webring suggestions?
Fourth, what’s the best way of adding a java chat room in 2024?
Finally, anything else that really needs to be a part of a great '90s website?
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I had a song from Scooter playing on my page back then :D (in MIDI)
It’s readable on mobile. You need to unfix that immediately. The font must not appear bigger than 5px. Responsive layout is forbidden.
Also, no popups, That’s both retro and not retro enough. (Or were those introduced for the first round in the early 2000’s? I don’t know, I’m too young)
do you have a click counter at the bottom
That cat is way too high res
Line by line loading images, maybe an error message saying the connection dropped with the modem sound playing to restart the page.
Comic Sans MS
Infinite popups, simulated of course now that most web browsers block popups.
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.
You need some “important” data that’s in an unstyled bulky table. You also need some horizontal rules on the page to split up content.
Absolutely needs a hit counter.
This is going on my bookmarks toolbar. Thank you!
Design is too mobile responsive
The great irony is: websites in the 90’s would have been made to cater to resolutions of 640x480. Fancy monitor resolutions went up to 1024x768.
So, viewing it on a mobile screen should be nicer than what a full computer in the 90’s could offer.
’90s websites would have had terrible touch target sizes
You need a dancing baby.
I just signed the guestbook leaving that exact suggestion and then read your comment, lol.
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.
