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> Half the Web was fan portals about Animorphs, with inexplicable splash pages warning you that their site worked best if you had a 640×480 screen.

This is an amazing reference. K. A. Applegate's post-series Animorphs site, hirac delest, is still online - and was originally written around this era (series ended in 2001, so its last update, if not creation, is a bit later). It has some newer stuff like CSS, but definitely check out the source here as well: http://www.hiracdelest.com/database/index_database.htm

Just with a quick scan on the main page, it has a mix of upper and lowercase tags, a "best views in" resolution, various font tags, and body tag similar to the SpaceJam one:

  <body text="#CCCCCC" link="#33CCFF" vlink="#33CCFF" onload="MM_preloadImages('../images/menu-v2/over_thumb/about.jpg')">
(hirac delest is from the period when I first started learning html/css/js, within a year or two)



MM_preload...

That's Dreamweaver I think, steaming pile of crap its pages were.

Edit: actually, it was a very good IDE for writing html at the time I used it; it's wysiwyg led people to make pages that were a terrible mess under the covers though.


> MM_preload...

Yep, just trigger some trauma for me there. Had long since buried that.

>That's Dreamweaver I think, steaming pile of crap its pages were.

... seriously, this post brought up things I had long intentionally forgotten. I was one of those poor fools that fella for the WYSIWYGness of DreamWeaver




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