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Ghostwriter site, but no zombie links ⁋ by olia

+ + 2011-01-27

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?

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Two Bad GIFs ⁋ by olia

2011-01-26

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

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Under Construction as Design Element ⁋ by olia

+ + 2011-01-26

From 1995 to 1997 various under construction signs could be found almost on every web page. They were present and prominent, and still they would be positioned in the very bottom, or very top as a meta element of a page.

Sometimes they could be a part of the page’s design. But now for the first time I see an under construction bar that is the backbone of a website layout.

Original URL: http://geocities.com/Pentagon/1534

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Felix in Pentagon ⁋ by olia

+ + + + 2011-01-25

I’ve been following Felix the Cat for years. It is a great GIF, perfect loop, perfect transparency. He is not a rare visitor in the bottom of amateur web pages. But to find him on the home page of the “5th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Flight” at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, was still a surprise. What is he doing there? I’ll make some circles in Pentagon Pride web ring to find it out.

Original URL: http://geocities.com/Pentagon/1260

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⁋ by olia

+ 2011-01-25

Original URL: http://geocities.com/Pentagon/1040/

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Geocities vs. Tripod ⁋ by olia

+ 2011-01-24

A user from neighborhood WallStreet/1043/ instructs newcomers:

“Membership of Geocities is free and each member is provided with up to 1M of disk space for free. You can get a few good images in a megabyte and I’ll do that as soon as I can get around to it. […] Tripod is similar to Geocities but provides only 100K of disk space. 100K is not the greatest but still sufficient to create a reasonable Web page, as long as you don’t go overboard with graphics – again linking to off site graphics is a space saving boon.”

100Kb!

Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/1043/

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⁋ by olia

2011-01-24

Original URL: http://geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1133/

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“my links” ⁋ by olia

2011-01-23

There were times when web users linked search engines, not the other way round.

Original URL: http://geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/1167/

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⁋ by olia

2011-01-23

Original URL: http://geocities.com/Area51/2008

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Comic Sans as System Font ⁋ by olia

+ + + 2011-01-23

I’m trapped in a web ring of webmasters. Users teaching users how to move around W3C standards in order to squeeze the maximum from HTML. For example, Roxy M. Flanagan explains how to make Triple or Quadruple Backgrounds using double or triple tables for HTML page layout.

She also helps AOL users to fight AOL’s voluntarism:

“AOL refuses to publish the ‘how-to’. AND every version they come out with, they put this in a different place trying to KEEP PEOPLE from getting to it!”

I’ve seen a lot of howtos typed in comic sans in my web surfing career, but its quite rare to meet a user who has it as a system font. By the way, I never read a useful howto typed in Helvetica.

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