Asklemmy

You need this image:
http://hwg.org/images/lo-025.gif

You can even go all out and actually join legitimately: http://hwg.org/services/logo/

Needs an animated gif that doesn't properly render transparency, so the background is just a solid color.

Can we have a globe please that magically spins?

Needs a blink tag and some old style Microsoft Word art.

Background audio player that automatically plays some crusty grunge midis

Comic Sans MS

Spinning wordart!

That site would have been considered remarkably beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. As such it's not quite realistic.

Much too legible. I recommend less contrast for the text.

I don't see you playing with alignment? I would like more centered text personally. And long lines of text without breaks.

Why not throw in some "lorem ipsum" placeholders.

Are you using a WYSIWYG editor?

Where are your dancing hampsters?

Also is this before or after it became trendy to copy/paste all sorts of scripts into the html? Remember scrolling text on the status bar, how about those ascii things that follow your mouse around?

I'd keep an eye on your page's size, remember we would be loading this on 56k dialup modems... if we were lucky!

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy iframes - you definitely need them

Blinkies - those small gifs that blinked to give the impression of glitter.

iframes - precursor to divs, but definitely added that "only works in IE" feel.

More contrast between font color and background image - it's too easy to read.

12pt Times New Roman font - gotta squint to read and default font for everything

Flashy gif banner at your header and footer - bonus points if they're the same image

All urls default to underlined blue and purple.

Mouse cursor with trails. The more sparkles, the better.

Clip art. Clip art everywhere.

You need some “important” data that’s in an unstyled bulky table. You also need some horizontal rules on the page to split up content.

Needs 300% more skull trumpet.

Fun idea. ASCII Art!

@ajsadauskas @linux Image maps? <marquee>? A digital view counter, or one of those gifs of a spinning odometer.
A link that goes to a clip art digger saying 'under construction' in 90s office clip art.

Custom curors that animate at rest and during loading so you're not sure which part of the curors clicks, and also not sure sure if something is being loaded or not. Bonus points if the cursor changes to yet another ambiguous animated one as you hover over a tiny button which would pause the midi track.

Guestbook didn't work, after recaptcha it just said POST failed. Oh and you need a visitor counter!

256 colors. Especially for that background. Or maybe even less and use dithering.

Line by line loading images, maybe an error message saying the connection dropped with the modem sound playing to restart the page.

I love it! Takes me right back. I was going to suggest adding a visitor counter but you already had it.

BOOTSTRA.386 (okay, on second thought, that's more the 80s and doesn't really fit.)

You might get some useful ideas on !oldweb@lemmy.ml (although it seems abandoned now)

Needs more dancing Jesus

Infinite popups, simulated of course now that most web browsers block popups.

The problem is the MIDI file doesn't automatically play.

That cat is way too high res

Adobe flash.

http://theoldnet.com/

I had to go dig up the link again. Was looking for this folding license plate step thing I saw once, and found the sellers website. Looks like it is also straight out of the 90's

http://markthree.com/custom_vans_license_plate_steps.htm

This is going on my bookmarks toolbar. Thank you!

Oh man -- you need a blink tag on some of that text. Support for the tag has been removed from all modern browsers.

So you'll need to add it in with javascript that updates CSS or something.

use html tables with large borders ... or that is how I feel the old times look

Put some more random badges on the bottom
This site has a lot of them: https://web.badges.world/

Add a visitor counter like this one - https://retrowptheme.com/retro-visitor-counter/

for more vintage gif's check this website - https://gifcities.org

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy (Trying to remember my own GeoCities site from back then), Many had a “best viewed on Netscape” icon

I think mine had mostly my own song lyrics, with a different background for each page, with a menu page and forward/back links on each lyrics page.

Were frames 90s? Friend of mine used frames to make his site look like a console from Star Trek TNG