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086’s offer to take the graphics he made for his site menu was nice, but inappropriate. True, amateur sites of the pre-template web were build with extensive use of found graphics. But the navigation bar was the element everybody tried to keep unique: so it was a constant experiment with form and pattern of the buttons. A typical result is on the image below.

This image also provides a typical example of navigation that is made in advance. The button “Hobies” exists before anything about the Hobbies was written. 15 years later this childhood disease of webdesign is not fully conquered.

Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1098

I found a perfect illustration for my old thesis:

Free collections are the soul of vernacular web. Lots of people were building their pages with free graphics and lots of people were making collections. The many-to-many principle really worked. Making your own site and building collections was a parallel process for a lot of people.

When you click “Images” (5th button from the bottom in navigation on the left) you come to 086’s collection of images, The first link there brings us to “my own images” that are 086’s navigation elements again.

Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/086/image1.html

Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/~stoker1439/

Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/-myagi-/newpicsNS.html

0, 78% in one week. Last Saturday.

Original URL: http://www.theplanetsun.com/

Original URL: http://geocities.com/Pentagon/1882/futebol.html

On http://www.geocities.com/pwanglee/:

On http://www.wanglee.us/ (hosted at smallbusiness.yahoo.com)

Stuart Schneider is a writer, lawyer, collector, traveller. His website http://www.wordcraft.net/ represents all his life and passions. That’s why it needs a long navigation on the left. I even needed to disable navigation and status bars in my browser to make a screenshot of it.

“FFFFUUUUUUUU,” — a contemporary web designer will say. — “awful graphics, terrible typography, trashy transparency, more than 7 elements!” Yes, indeed, everything is clumsy, except for one thing: if you click on a link button, this button will not appear on the next page. There are a lot of halloween items on the website, but no Zombie Links!

Do you know many contemporary webpages that don’t contain links leading to the same page that is already displayed?

Both found at http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1728/