Is it just nostalgia or were the website designs from the 2000s more unique, playful and with character? Responsive design and mobile web are a necessity, but I feel like they annihilated all creativity in web design.
The “standards” where not there, so all websites had to make things custom. I remember my wife making custom buttons for hers back in the day. It was so awesome.
I’ve seen some neocities sites, they are pretty cool.
I just wish some of the larger websites (gaming or otherwise) would make something similar for their desktop website and make a simple (non-responsive) mobile version.
They were more unique and creative. Were they functional? Ehhh not always. But i still love it and with modern implementation id like to see more of it. It doesnt have to be dated. It can just be a creative difference. Not every single site has to use js and look like the 3 websites 99% of normies use.
Take baccyflap.com. I love this site and see no issues at all with it. Most people under 30 would run away screaming from this site (hyperbole) because they are conditioned by x, fb, and the tok.
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Is it just nostalgia or were the website designs from the 2000s more unique, playful and with character? Responsive design and mobile web are a necessity, but I feel like they annihilated all creativity in web design.
Just look at those sites, they’re hard to navigate, there’s no consistency between them, where are the ads?
I’d still gladly have them over the bland, hard to navigate, soulless crap we get now.
The “standards” where not there, so all websites had to make things custom. I remember my wife making custom buttons for hers back in the day. It was so awesome.
Maybe you know about it, but neocities still has some of that charm. https://neocities.org/browse
I’ve seen some neocities sites, they are pretty cool.
I just wish some of the larger websites (gaming or otherwise) would make something similar for their desktop website and make a simple (non-responsive) mobile version.
They were more unique and creative. Were they functional? Ehhh not always. But i still love it and with modern implementation id like to see more of it. It doesnt have to be dated. It can just be a creative difference. Not every single site has to use js and look like the 3 websites 99% of normies use.
Take baccyflap.com. I love this site and see no issues at all with it. Most people under 30 would run away screaming from this site (hyperbole) because they are conditioned by x, fb, and the tok.
I’d almost totally forgotten about webrings. Thanks for posting this for that reason if no other, it has a big list of webrings to explore.
Webrings are so fun
It’s just nostalgia. The vast majority of those were either entirely devoid of content or entirely unusable.
Also, mostly Flash, so disqualified for human consumption by defult.
I won’t argue against it being nostalgia driven (it’s a powerful thing), but most of those sites definitely did not use flash.
We should bring flash back to torture bots and AI scrapers