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Let's get started. First let's keep some keypoints in mind:

* Try to make your webpage or website perfectly imperfect:

• a banner on the first page, but not the second
• long texts, lot's of bold and strange color combinations
• html only, so ugly default fonts, unless you want to fast forward to the late nineties and use CSS
• create your own bullet points (any symbol you like) and add some spaces
• lot's of gif's and pictures anyplace, anywhere, anytime
• have a look at 90s sites , geocities stuff

* Add some nineties stuff:

• a counter
• banners
• slow loading "dialup speed" pictures (create a gif)
• a repeating image background , it doesn't have to be seamless
• add a sitemap, or a links page
• ugly buttons
• easter eggs
• a never ending 'under construction' banner somewhere (let's keep some part of our website under construction until the next decade)
• a broken or wrong hyperlink

* Techy geek stuff:

• for charset, use utf-8 , it wasn't invented yet, but we want to show off our 90s site in this decade
• don't use vulnerable mechanisms like http instead of https, oldschool guestbooks vulnerable to sql injection, ... we want to keep things secure
• do a quick validation check (don't stare yourself blind at the obsolete stuff, we want to go back :-) )
• work with forms instead of mailto links
• use websafe colors (in the 90s devices could only display 256 colors) --> also think of images, no obligation at all, it's your creation
• html tables can help you give the layout a 90s look and feel. Do keep in mind that mobile devices now exist and your page needs to be diplayable on mobile as well

* For the noobs:

• use one of our templates and customize away
• have us build your 90s website

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