The Old Web™ is awesome: lovely self-made home pages, doing your own hosting, quirky designs, oldschool forums, curated hyperlinks – all that stuff. I feel like I’m seeing more and more people turn (return?) to the golden old ways… Do we live in a renaissance of the Old Web™? I wish!
Well, yes, I wish that. Period! But whether it’s wishful thinking or not, here’s a cool, recent project for the DIY web scene:
- Wander Console - Discover the Small Web
Embrace the Old, erm, the Small Web! Embrace serendipity! Discover awesome content made by fellow humans!
As a website owner, you just need to download two files, add some links, and you’re part of a modern-day webring – only cooler and more advanced!
I’ve added a Wander console of my own: heckmeck.de/wander/
It contains many links from my What’s Cool? blog post series, and of course some of my own projects (I’ve already seen that I need to make some adjustments here and there so they can run in an IFrame – damn you, CORS!).
Since the latest Wander release allows you to customize the CSS a bit, I had to put in some AmigaOS-style chunky buttons. And I took the time to properly emulate disabled buttons while I was at it:
The CSS got a little tricky (maybe there’s a better way?), but at least I now know how to improve the disabled buttons in Coppenheimer for the next update. :)
| CSS | Image |
|---|---|
button {
border-image: url(border.png) 2;
border-width: 2px;
position: relative;
} |  |
button:disabled::before {
content: "";
display: block;
width: calc(100% + 4px);
height: calc(100% + 4px);
position: absolute;
top: -2px;
left: -2px;
background-image: url(disabled.png);
} |  |
