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Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

#32

Aside from the Cowboy Bebop nostalgia hit, this site is a great example of how clear, creative, and fun sites were in the late 1990s. While I struggle to identify the many reasons why I think sites looked better back then, I think being simple and content focused are two of them.

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Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

#34
As soon as I saw the page, I started wondering how Emily designed this effect of the menu merging with the image back then. Turns out it's just cropped images carefully placed together - check the source code yourself. Only then was I able to start noticing the imperfections of this implementation, but it really puts in perspective how our web design has changed over the years.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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CB delivered a truly potent and high-quality vibe-in-the-round. A fully featured artifact. Best modern equivalent: Chainsaw Man.

Huh I hadn’t thought of comparing the two, but I think you’re onto something.

I’d always equated chainsaw man with FLCL, due to the similar themes of chaos, beauty and youth nihilism

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

#37

Aside from the Cowboy Bebop nostalgia hit, this site is a great example of how clear, creative, and fun sites were in the late 1990s. While I struggle to identify the many reasons why I think sites looked better back then, I think being simple and content focused are two of them.

To be fair, for 1999, this is an all around fantastic site.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

#38

As soon as I saw the page, I started wondering how Emily designed this effect of the menu merging with the image back then. Turns out it's just cropped images carefully placed together - check the source code yourself. Only then was I able to start noticing the imperfections of this implementation, but it really puts in perspective how our web design has changed over the years.

Keep in mind there weren't many screen resolutions, it was all 4:3

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

#39

As soon as I saw the page, I started wondering how Emily designed this effect of the menu merging with the image back then. Turns out it's just cropped images carefully placed together - check the source code yourself. Only then was I able to start noticing the imperfections of this implementation, but it really puts in perspective how our web design has changed over the years.

Yeah this is how we used to do it :-)

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

#40

As soon as I saw the page, I started wondering how Emily designed this effect of the menu merging with the image back then. Turns out it's just cropped images carefully placed together - check the source code yourself. Only then was I able to start noticing the imperfections of this implementation, but it really puts in perspective how our web design has changed over the years.

We also used to use image maps for this kind of thing, at least once that tag became available. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
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