Making a ’90s Style Website With Microsoft FrontPage 98!

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Today we're checking out FrontPage 98, a WYSIWYG website creation tool from Microsoft. And we're gonna use it to make the most '90s-like website ever! Maybe...

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Intro Music:
Stevia Sphere - Apartments

Background Music:
"A Kiss for Amanda", "Soul and Mind", "The Thought of You", "By the Fireplace", and "Ersatz Bossa" from the YouTube Audio Library

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"Rest" from the YouTube Audio Library

Outro Music: Silent Partner - Bet On It
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[MichaelMJD]

PHOTOSENSITIVE WARNING: There are some flashing images, especially on the fake NFT page.

[Povilaz]

Ah, it's a good day when you stumble across a website that looks like it was made in the late 90s/ early 2000s in the modern era. I seriously miss the aesthetic of the old internet: the embossed buttons, the low-res 256 color bitmap graphics/gifs, the (usually) cluttered amount of text. So much nostalgia from the mystery and new information you were about to come across any day.

[bigloudnoise]

Only thing missing is an embedded MIDI file that automatically starts playing whenever you load the page.

[vms]

I recently used FrontPage for a school project and got an A.

[peckneck]

Honestly there was something truly charming about these 90s style websites. Yeah sure, they were mostly crappy, but they were also colorful, full of personality and confusing af too but strangely enough you never really minded that. You could just tell at first glance that an actual human being meda that. Today websites on the other hand feel are they've been designed by some sort of AI which goal was to create the blandest, simplest and most efficient website possible. It's basically just black text on a white background(or this in reverse in night mode) with relevant image and thats it.

[WisconsinAdventures]

Man this website took me back. When I was 11 for some reason I wanted to make a website that was basically what Wikipedia is. I had an encyclopedia set in my bedroom on my bookshelf and spent a lot of time reading them, and I wanted to make a website that i could "read" the encyclopedia on. So I used frontpage and started making it; I started with the "A" encyclopedia and started typing out every entry. I made it through only probably 25 pages before I gave up haha. But my idea was to make a main page that had each letter, or letter group like encyclopedias were labeled, that you could click on then you could scroll through a page and read each entry, just like an encyclopedia. I am not sure why I didn't just scan the pages and upload them as images, I thought I needed to type out every entry by hand.

[WillmobilePlus]

It may look gaudy and cluttered it feels like home again. Just seeing that twinkling star background pulled at my heart like seeing a photo of an old friend you havent seen in so long.

I didnt have the money for Front Page, but I did code "websites" that I ran locally using Wordpad, and some shareware programs to make Image Maps, and would make my own gifs using the legendary "Gif Construction Set" application.

[rign_]

Despite being born in 2002, I've always been drawn to the nostalgic charm and timeless elegance of classic and retro style websites. There's something undeniably captivating about their simplicity and aesthetic.

[RockMadeHome]

Ahh, Frontpage. This video was so nostalgic for me, as frontpage was my inspiration to learn more about computers and how to design a web page and learn programming. As a web developer, I'm so grateful for this trip to the past.
Greetings from Chile, Michael!

[cardbored_]

My first website ever was a GeoCities back in the mid 90's, I was a young teenager at the time. I'm now 40 and have been a professional software engineer for 20 years. It's amazing to see this video because it really takes me back to what got me into software development.

[thag_simmons]

Never before have I been more motivated to make modernized versions of these kinds of 90s "outsider art"-styled webpages. I miss when the net was so charmingly trashy </3

[simon-ricardokuhn]

I remember wanting to install Windows 98 just because of the built-in FrontPage. The main reason is to create "fake programs", basically interactive mock-ups, since you can add buttons, text fields, checkboxes, etc. Sure, these "programs" saved as web pages do nothing but I had a blast making them!

[snickerbockers]

I love how this was simultaneously made with Debian, MacOS 8, Amiga and Darwin.

The anachronistic Discord ad is great too.

[CEOable]

Now that's something excellent that can be done solely for nostalgic purposes! Great job!

[SuishoShizuku]

I remember playing around with FrontPage 2002 back in the days. It was pretty fun but your site is just hilarious. Please host it so that the other retro computing fans can access it on their old machines with IE5 or whatever browser they use and take a trip down memory lane enjoying that nostalgic feeling.

[nslouka]

I love how simple it is to use, it looks just like another office product. I’ve tried creating a website years ago and it was too complicated despite the program website advertising simplicity and ease of use “for dummies”

[CapTVchilenaShootingStarMax]

To be honest, almost no webpage should be any more complex than this.

[MaskedGEEK]

Remember when Homer made his own website in The Simpsons? MJD just made it real. Good work. 😁👍

[realLuisGiordano]

Back when everyone could create a web site from scratch. I miss the 90s so much

[maksymiliankuznik]

that's actually a pretty good way to make a retro website