Author Archives: olia

“These borders are here for your use. Please DO NOT link directly to any of these graphics! Right click on the graphic and ‘save image as’ to save them to your own hard drive. Then upload the graphic to your directory to place on your homepage.”

Found at the graphics collection page of HPIP (Heartland Partners in Prayer). Very pre-cloud appeal. The instructions probably sound absolutely strange for todays users, who customize their profiles with free graphics.

On the bottom of the collection there is another note to the community members:

In other words: let’s share, but still lets keep some sites unique … please.

Btw, I didn’t remember that these types of backgrounds were called “borders”.

Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/hpip.geo/

Lise’s Garden is a rich collection of flowery graphics for your home page, especially if your page is located in the Heartland (family life, pets, garden) neighborhood. Though Lisa’s Garden itself is in Yosemite. It is a collection of the graphics that she made, and she found.

On the first page Lise formulates her terms of use:

Feel free to use any of the images you see on these pages. I appreciate links back to this site if you use my graphics, and ask that you NOT include these graphics in your own collections. Thank you : )

Well articulated, but a strange wish to stop the circulation of graphics she herself found somewhere else.

Originl URL: http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/9729/

I was surprized to see a glitter graphic at Geocities. Though, the page where I found it was last updated in 2004, so it fits.
And still feels wrong: Glitter is Myspace, not Geocities. Geocities are 90es, not 00s.

Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/1302/

Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/1139/

Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9116/

Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/1440/

One page to rule them all, Dragan mentioned some days ago, brought me to a magical tribute to the state Michigan – I am Michigan. It is one of Richard’s Creations. There is not much known about the author. Only that his full name is Richard Nichols and that he’d appreciate if the global community would donate some dollars that could cover his web hosting costs – otherwise the site will be taken down by July 2011.

This would be a shame. Richard’s Creations is an ultimate fandom place. Whatever or whomever Richard likes or admires gets immortalized in HTML. His monuments made of nested tables, background images and WAV sounds are funny, naive, touching. But not only. I am Michigan is a proper resource for useful links and info about Michigan.

Below I allow to myself to reproduce Richard’s animated GIF homage to the Jackson Cascades.

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Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/3197/

Clicking through the site of Valentine Michelle Smith of West Hollywood, I was puzzled by its schizophrenic appearance.

How can it be that the same person would put a Saturn devider

over starry night background

and then, on the next page, stack teddy bears over teddy bears?

The website is not just modular as most of its contemporaries, but eclectic. The latter is unusual for amateur webdesign.

The mystery has a very simple explanation: the author is a cross-dresser.

Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/9398/