A look into the past of web design

rofl done every single one of those. Oh I pine for those halcyon days when things were so simple and innocent, web site building was so much fun, what happened to all that

Wonder if I can build a business based around retro web site construction

I'll go in on it with you! Our "contact us" page will have pictures of us with long sideburns, butterfly collar, that link to our emails

I'm still trying to stop myself doing it!

Aaaw...c'mon Cupid...dig one up and let's have a look

I remember that I restyled my pages at Christmas

When I get home today, I'll dig something up for you. I encourage everybody to post an old design, for fun!

This was one of my first "professional" sites...
http://www.tbisigns.com/
Oh, how time has flown. This was built in 1999 I believe.

Here's my first pro site (defunct):
http://web.archive.org/web/20000302161255/http://www.dewcol.com/

Deuce and Verschwindende, great examples!! I cant wait to get home and really show you guys some old-school design.

Deuce - That's the spirit, hey you were really cooool! The page I checked even validates! Transitional though

Verschwindende - hmmm...don't know that you were really trying here, it still looks good

Cupid - oh this should be gooood

Oh, its good alright!!
navigate to the following link. On this site, make sure you visit the "Portfolio" page. This is a gold-mine of old-school!! There is a link labeled "web".

http://pixelbehavior.com/old_school/index.html

Note - on the black sites, pay close attention to detail.

Sweet mystery meat!

@Cupid - Sweet tiny ass font! Ed would have a fit!
Looking at your portfolio, I had a robotic themed site once as well! I remember the days of learning the Photoshop 5 tricks of how to create "realistic" wires... hahah!

@Smee - At least it validated and had a doctype!

I am proud to say I have never done any of those things. I couldn't be any more proud to say it even if it were true.

cheers,

gary

Oh Cupid...ROFL...you win! I love it!

What a labour of love KA must have been *shaking head* Did you do anything else?

Ooh yes - an outstanding example

It did indeed and I acknowledged the fact
How many terrorists did you kill on KA?

Ah, c'mon Gazza - 'fess up, show us yer stuff!

Erm... fibber. There was no way that was built in 1999 and there is a very particular reason I can state that emphatically - it validates and to a xhtml schema that hadn't reached candidate recommendation by that time

Back then no real Web Master would have had a clue about valid code, or DTD's. There were only two browsers and one of those hadn't a clue what a DTD was! and nor had most of us

Still it's a classic example and has clearly stood the test of time being that it appears to be still running live, is it not time to revisit client and offer upgrade

Have a look for supertoastman.co.uk on the Wayback machine I can't get through work's filtering but it was originally at Geocities, then Brinkster

@Verschwindende- indeed !!

@Deuce - yeah, the small fonts didnt look so bad at 800x600 back in the day. I was all about the brushed, molding, slimy metal. sewer design.

@Smee - That KA site took forever to build. there is soooo much content. LOL, that terrorists game IS pretty fun!! See games can be fun, without flash!

did you guys happen to run across my 3D stuff. Yeah, i did that with DOS 3D Studio. DOS, hahahaha

"Page not found". That must be as old as mine.

Oops! Double post.

I'll bet it took a while, I had a good look around and noted the stack of content

I tried the 3D but got a 404 I could only get the other little site and the 6 or 8 pics - everything else 404-ed on the "web" page.

@Smee - yeah, most links are not working. There is a 3D image page that works

Erm... fibber. There was no way that was built in 1999 and there is a very particular reason I can state that emphatically - it validates and to a xhtml schema that hadn't reached candidate recommendation by that time

Back then no real Web Master would have had a clue about valid code, or DTD's. There were only two browsers and one of those hadn't a clue what a DTD was! and nor had most of us

Still it's a classic example and has clearly stood the test of time being that it appears to be still running live, is it not time to revisit client and offer upgrade

I'm not sure, but I'm pretty certain I built that before I was out of high school. I grad-e-ated in '02, so it was sometime before that... I haven't talked to the owner since then... The owner of the company is a guy who used to own and run the HalfLife TFC server I played on.

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!
I totally found it! yay!!!
This was the first site I ever spent a vast amount of my time on!!
It has frames, java, animated gifs, repeating backgrounds, etc etc.
HAHAHAHAHAAH
ya!!!

http://members.fortunecity.com/dark_optra/

NOTE: This site WILL take forever to load.

@Deuce - That is the-bomb site!! Man, that is exactly what I wanted to see. Bravo, Bravo!!!

@Duece yep that's the one, has a classic Geocities / Tripod feel, it's a little light on effects though, you forget a marquee tag for one

There's a Java marquee at the top!!!

Amaaazing!!!

I've never done that! I was lucky.

this is the funnest thread ive seen on the site!! we need more submissions!