October 5, 2008 - Categories: Nostalgia.
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.
It’s like that client who INSISTS the graphic they created in word is AWESOME and wants it on their site. I hide in shame and deny I even touched the site >:( Actually, I still think I receive these in an email here and there. :S
I can remember myself also using some of them during my early days of web design. ;)
lol
i absolutely hate these icons
can never even imagine to use such icons on my website
feels like internet way back 1994