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Elements of UGLY Web Design - Navigation Animated Gifs
October 5, 2008 - Categories: Nostalgia, Ugly Web Design.
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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

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Homepage Animated GIFs

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Email or Contact Animated GIFs

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Download Animated GIFs

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Statistics Animated GIFs

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Under Construction Animated GIFs

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Seperator / Lines / Breaks Animated GIFs

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Arrows Animated GIFs

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Animated Text GIFs

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Next Week: Elements of UGLY Web Design: 2. Inline Frames.

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19 Comments so far

  1. ...paul on October 5, 2008 10:39 pm

    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.

  2. Rokurosv on October 5, 2008 11:21 pm

    The flag separator is probably the worst, tied with the “colorful” Updated!.

  3. SE7EN on October 6, 2008 1:15 am

    lol. such nostalgia

  4. Wannes Daemen on October 6, 2008 1:32 am

    This is worse than a horror movie. It stills surprises me how many clients ask for this kind of shit on their website…

  5. PJ on October 6, 2008 4:50 am

    What a ghastly collection, but perfect for the Halloween season.

  6. gaetan on October 6, 2008 6:37 am

    “Ouille, Ouille”…
    I’am loosing my eyes

    Sorry i close the windows ;-)

  7. Joe on October 6, 2008 8:33 am

    I want to personally thank you for the seizure.

  8. Catherine Markel on October 6, 2008 8:54 am

    Still very popular in MySpace comment sections!

  9. Laurence on October 6, 2008 10:20 am

    They are pretty psychedelic when listening to the prodigy!

  10. D on October 6, 2008 11:32 am

    Hmm, I think I may use some of these for my website…. ;)

  11. Alper on October 9, 2008 7:12 am

    But,about before 5 years,these gif were very fashinable.Now,Web 2.0 buttons are fashinable.Thanks for content.

  12. joomla on October 9, 2008 2:17 pm

    thank you

  13. Bill on October 10, 2008 1:03 am

    Um…what about the blinking, jiggling classmates.com ad at the top of this page?

  14. BojanP on October 12, 2008 12:50 pm

    Ah.. Brings back the memories. So 1996.

  15. web design manchester on October 27, 2008 8:04 am

    The birth of epilepsy..!
    What was we thinking

  16. Des on November 16, 2008 11:01 pm

    oh what a headache. Thankfully those days for most of us are over.