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 
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)
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”
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
You could go peak period and dig up a copy of Macromedia flash
Temptinggg
I am trying to pull off a careful balance between modern web browser support and backwards compatibility hehe
I have complicated feelings about Flash :P
It’s a piece of shit don’t use it lol
Making me wanna use it smh
“Please download Macromedia Flash to view this website” would be an incredible bit in 2025 though lmao
I want to make a shitty website now
Make a website filled with those fake software ads that were like “you have 10 viruses pls install our virus”
https://neocities.org/ is the place to go :3
Or run your own server and domain like me if you’re cool