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)

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    So a few tips from someone who actually designed these in 1995-1998 as a pre-teen

    You need a view counter down at the very bottom.

    Above that you need a list of links to other websites. These should be in blue and turn purple when they're visited. It needs to say LINKS above that. Putting the name of the site and then the full url is peak performance but the more elite among us would do the embed

    You need some side scrolling text, and some MIDI background music (not sure if you added that I didn't visit with audio)

    You should show the name of the midi song, with music notes next to it-- .jpg NOT emoji

    Pure HTML only no css or anything else like that. And finally a link to itself on top that says "if you are visiting from a website with frames, click HERE to break free"

    Edit: just saw the other link here those little gifs down at the bottom are important, "this website best viewed in Netscape navigator"

    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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      3 days ago

      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