![]() Those disgusting background images you see above were almost certainly GIF images. GIFs were the way to go, and were used (abused?) all over the place. JPG images were fine for photos, but for computer-generated images. Again, some of you won’t be old enough to remember these, but before we had PNG and SVG, we only really had two choices for web graphics. See, there was one thing worse than those ugly backgrounds, and that was animated GIFs. It actually looks a whole lot better (or worse, depending on your point of view) if you apply the CSS to the body of the page, instead of a single, but I couldn’t bring myself to subject you to that!Īlways one to rise to a challenge, I decided to see if I could beat him to it. This is from someone who was in nappies when the previous backgrounds were released. ![]() By combining two linear gradients and a radial one, he managed to come up with a single CSS rule that produced this monstrosity… Well, we were until my son decided to play around with some CSS! He was experimenting with background gradients, seeing what he could do in pure CSS. (Taken from 15 Classic 90s Website Designs you Want Know, example #13.) (Taken from 10 Popular Web Designs From The 90s That Would Never Fly Today, example #2.) To pick one random, but quite typical example… These were usually chosen to make the foreground text as hard as possible to read (or that’s how it seemed). ![]() The most common way to do this was simply a small image that was tiled over the page’s background. ![]() Actually, I think the word “design” there is somewhat generous.Īlong with “Under construction” signs and hit counters, one of the more popular features of a web site was a really ugly background. If you’re old enough to have been using the web in the 1990s (ulp, public admissions of age!), you may remember that web design was, erm, different from today. ![]()
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