When MySpace was popular, you could sometimes stumble upon profiles that looked like this. MySpace's HTML/CSS customization was a great feature.
Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
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Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sites mostly didn't look this good though, they were even more garish colors and 'under construction' banners
Guilty as charged. Also don’t forget about frames, marquee text, and that smoking skeleton wearing sunglasses gif. :)
Frames were a great way to keep around nav before the sticky css attribute. However, they were horrible for linking.
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
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#74When MySpace was popular, you could sometimes stumble upon profiles that looked like this. MySpace's HTML/CSS customization was a great feature.
It was the gateway to a career in software for several people that I know. It's a pity we don't trust users with freedom like that anymore.
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#75Aside 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.
Responsive websites pretty much killed this type of aesthetic. It would be an absolute nightmare to get this sort of design to work well while supporting mobile.
It's a real pity, because the hybrid designs we get now all looks like a bunch of uninspired rectangles.
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#76I couldn't wait to see a guestbook again...
> Error The administrators or owner of this guestbook are not allowed to link the guestbook via HTTPS (SSL) unless they have a premium account. [...] NOTE: If you are still seeing this message after clicking the link above, then you are using a non-default setting or plugin that is causing HTTP links to be upgraded to HTTPS. This is not a standard way of surfing the web. Please change your settings or try with another browser. You will otherwise have problem accessing 20% of all websites.
Even the third-party dependency has a nostalgic feel, of some random person with a Perl CGI script running on a beige PC under their desk, who could just do their thing on the Internet, their own way.
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#77Aside 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.
Responsive websites pretty much killed this type of aesthetic. It would be an absolute nightmare to get this sort of design to work well while supporting mobile. It's a real pity, because the hybrid designs we get now all looks like a bunch of uninspired rectangles.
This site works fine on mobile
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#78The modern internet is deprived of ornamentation in the same way modern architecture is. Tiktok allready upped the speed and made a lot of the established web seem terribly boring. I truly hope that AI generated content is putting the final nail in the coffin and we start to see more creative and individualistic media landscapes thrive again. Hope dies last.
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#79Aside 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.
Responsive websites pretty much killed this type of aesthetic. It would be an absolute nightmare to get this sort of design to work well while supporting mobile. It's a real pity, because the hybrid designs we get now all looks like a bunch of uninspired rectangles.
People should just stop making web pages for mobile. So many times I have had to force the desktop version of a page to actually get what I'm there for.
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#80Aside 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.
I don't feel like this site is simple, it's noisy and crowded. It doesn't aid me in finding what's provided to me. Although it looks very cool I'm quite glad we simplified designs and put UX on top of the priority list vs showing off what we can do.
i don't understand what you mean, the landing page is a table of contents.