What's the funniest website? Not the website which contains the funniest content, but the website which itself is funny, through concept, execution, or just plain incompetence
One of my favorite pizza places in northwest new jersey, Carmines pizza dot biz
Internet archive link from 2016, since they've gone the squarespace route in the years since
of websites designed under the following constraints:
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everyone has a 1024×768 monitor, probably. if their monitor is a bit bigger then that's fine there'll just be some extra space
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since everyone has the same size monitor, we can simply position everything at a fixed point on the page
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half the time, this was only checked in IE6 — which accepted plain numbers as lengths in CSS, which all other browsers ignore. i'll leave you to imagine the potential fallout here
it might just be that someone made a mid-00's wysiwyg editor that placed everything absolutely, because that's an easy way to design one, and we didn't have flexbox or grid yet. this particular website blames its crimes on homestead, but i have the inkling it's not solely to blame
but yeah every so often i stumble upon one of these fascinating artifacts, a website built like a physical paper pamphlet
My first real piece of web design as opposed to 'temporary' site designs that were left to rot and actually don't tend to look bad aside from a lack of max-width on text meaning on a modern browser when viewed on PC will usually have painfully long text widths was done in a table (Because 2001 GeoCities. Everything was either Tables or Frames and most people hated the browsing experience of Frames - They just seemed to break the back button on browsers sometimes), I believe it was designed to look good on 1024x768 and checked to make sure it worked on 800x600 because, well, 2001. (It might have been the reverse. Again, 2001, but since I'm sure I was using 1024x768 at that point I probably designed it to look good on that resolution and made sure it was compatible with 800x600)
It was also designed so that on the target resolution you had the entire layout fit on a single, maximized, browser window. Meaning the part of the table that had the site's contents rather than the '15 year-olds should not be making websites' gubbins that adorned Geocities site design - The Weather In Hell was probably the most fun of the off-site plugins I used - was designed to scroll separately from the browser winder.
This is comically tiny on modern monitors - I think the viewport after adjusting is 400 pixels wide (with a table data width of 480 pixels) - But I swear it looked good at the time, and it had the effect of having the content scroll independently of navigation (Along with nonsense like "I hugged vivi") without CSS (It was a 2001 GeoCities page. None of them used CSS) or inflicting Frames on people.
