I have a list of random web links that are worth seeing, even if only once, they’ll now be referred to as Link-Fu, the ancient art of locating precious links in the sceptic tank that is the inter-webs.
The first comes from a wonderful and obviously successful wedding and bridal business in Florida called Yvette’s Bridal Forum (http://yvettesbridalformal.com/).
Yvette’s Bridal Forum http://yvettesbridalformal.com/
It can be described in one of two ways:
- the most repulsive site ever created; or
- the best surviving example of an early to mid 90s <HTML3 pioneer’s creation (commonly found on geocities***) with sporadic ghastly use of CSS (z-index and absolute positioning), and javascript (lovely bouncing stick men).
The worst thing is, a quick flick back through everyones favorite web time machine, show’s that it only started going downhill in 2007, before that it was at least slightly tasteful, progressing (yes, it got worse, and worse) to what I can only classify today as web vomit.
Looking at the source reveals even more of the madness too (yahoo sitebuilder… space aliens?!?!?)
<title>Yvette’s</title>
<meta name=”generator” content=”Yahoo! SiteBuilder/2.6/1.5.0_02″>
</meta><meta name=”author” content=”Vespasian”>
</meta><meta name=”keywords” content=”Yvette’s, health, fitness, weightloss, weight loss, religion, space aliens”>
</meta>
None the less, it’s a worthy addition to LinkFu, and should be probably be saved in its current state to show our children and generations ahead, the wonders of yesteryear.
*** More recently, this behaviour has been seen repeated in the wild on myspace pages of the masses. ech.
Update: Apparently viewing the site in Internet explorer yields even more delights, with wonderful music and even better animation
