Sites and Memories

[Robin]

I do too--mainly I miss how they could blend in with a page. The coding behind it was always kinda wonky, but it made pretty sites ^_^

[Mikari]

I remember making the scrollbar invisible and layering gifs under it to that it had blinking arrows XD

[Robin]

^ serious mad skillz alert ^

Also, blinking GIF images to alert users to new content = still my fav. :D Mid-2000s REPRESENT!

[Mikari]

Lol yes! Blinkies in general also seemed more common.

[Crystal]

So many memories omg.

[Robin]

YES. It's all NOSTALGIA up in here~~~ :D

Oh, and how could I forget--transparent iframes floating over HUGE background images, because it looked COOL (and made updating layouts hella easier).

[Crystal]

Aww yeah! I remember doing that too. It looked so awesome at the time lol.

[Mikari]

Yes transparent iframes! And transparent things in general over blinking gifs XD

[Robin]

Also multiple iframes on the same page for even MOAR updatability (and screen-crowding xD). And...oh, frames in general. (I never could make frames look good--always ended up too boxy and obvious.)

I'm kinda surprised animated GIFs have made a comeback, to be honest, but I think we can thank Tumblr for that. LOLOL

[Mikari]

Yeah tumblr is probably the biggest site for gifs now. Twitter and Vine have many too.