Wasted $40 on a 'premium' Geocities template kit that was just 3 ugly gifs and some broken HTML

Dropped cash on that template pack thinking it would make my band page look pro but it was basically just a spinning globe, a mail icon, and a bunch of tiled backgrounds that didn't even line up right, has anyone else bought into those overpriced layout collections from the late 90s?

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the_nathan4d ago

Oh man, you just described my whole 1999 experience right there. I dropped like $30 on a "neon grunge" template pack for my personal site and it was literally just a lime green background tile and an animated skull that didn't even load half the time. My page ended up looking like a broken pizza flyer instead of the cool hacker aesthetic I was going for. Did you at least get that spinning globe to show behind your band name or was it stuck on a white box too?

stellat874d ago

See, I actually think those old broken templates had way more charm than the clean stuff we get now. At least a glitchy skull felt like someone actually tried to make something weird, even if it failed. Give me the janky animated GIFs and clashing colors over another boring cookie-cutter site any day.