Currently Reading: Elements of UGLY Web Design - Navigation Animated Gifs
Of course you will remember them, they were that horrible, badly designed navigation icons you seen everywhere on the internet. That was the days when graphic design and web design were so far apart that every site you turned to looked ugly, and they were made worse by those little blinking, color blind images that were trying to point you in the right direction.
Of course, I used them as well (it felt a little nostalgic collecting the gifs).
Elements of UGLY Web Design: 1. Navigation Animated Gifs.
I wouldn’t exactly call this a showcase, maybe a line up. Anyway, have a look at these gifs from a now bygone era. Thankfully.
Internet Explorer and Netscape Animated GIFs my favourites





Homepage Animated GIFs











Email or Contact Animated GIFs










Download Animated GIFs










Statistics Animated GIFs







Under Construction Animated GIFs










Seperator / Lines / Breaks Animated GIFs










Arrows Animated GIFs










Animated Text GIFs










Next Week: Elements of UGLY Web Design: 2. Inline Frames.
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I can remember all too well using some of those, or very much like them. It has to be said, they look so much worse all bunched up together like that. Thankfully web design has moved on a lot since they were prolific around the internet.
The flag separator is probably the worst, tied with the “colorful” Updated!.
lol. such nostalgia
This is worse than a horror movie. It stills surprises me how many clients ask for this kind of shit on their website…
What a ghastly collection, but perfect for the Halloween season.
“Ouille, Ouille”…
I’am loosing my eyes
Sorry i close the windows ;-)
I want to personally thank you for the seizure.
Still very popular in MySpace comment sections!
They are pretty psychedelic when listening to the prodigy!
Hmm, I think I may use some of these for my website…. ;)
But,about before 5 years,these gif were very fashinable.Now,Web 2.0 buttons are fashinable.Thanks for content.
thank you
Um…what about the blinking, jiggling classmates.com ad at the top of this page?
Ah.. Brings back the memories. So 1996.
The birth of epilepsy..!
What was we thinking
oh what a headache. Thankfully those days for most of us are over.