Most websites today are created to draw the highest audience and ‘convert’, but there’s a lesser-known web designed by regular people to share their interests. This unpolished, quirky web is fun, creative, and intriguing. The author’s redesign inspiration came from the nostalgic web of the 90s and early 2000s, filled with colours, creativity, and personal expression. Despite the modern web’s drawbacks of surveillance and bloat, discovering small, independent websites like Marijn’s gives hope. The author’s manual HTML and CSS website redesign, with unique backgrounds and animated GIFs, showcases the joy and simplicity of creating on the web.
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