I have to make a video game themed website...

[gtmtnbiker]

As others have mentioned, what is the exact description of the assignment? What class are you taking?

Is it a website 101 class and you just have to make any old website?

[harper]

Maybe I'll link it here once it's done. If it's not too terrible that is.

Please do.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Maybe I'll link it here once it's done. If it's not too terrible that is.

Please do.

Okay, I'll bump this thread at the end of August.

As others have mentioned, what is the exact description of the assignment? What class are you taking?

Is it a website 101 class and you just have to make any old website?

Pretty much. It's a HTML/XHTML/CSS class. My final project is to make a website of any topic. I chose video games.

[Hobie-wan]

Maybe get fancy with linking related information. For instance I'm looking at NES Contra, but I can click on Konami and now I'm listing Contra, Jackal, Contra Hard Corps and Axelay. Link companies, series, or perhaps musicians. That sort of thing.

[Menegrothx]

You should go retro-internet. Like tons of animated gifs and weird navigation buttons. Straight up 1995 Netscape/AOL days.

This. Go for a Tim&Eric Awesome-esque "as bad/cheesy/corny/amateurish as possible on purporse"-vibe

[CRTGAMER]

There might be a lot of people in the class that are unaware of the older Retro consoles. I find it interesting on what is a new game on a Mobile Phone has its roots in the older consoles, platforming for example. Maybe you could do a comparison of similar games of the old and new?

[Ack]

Do it like a Geocities page. Find some cheap spinning sparkly unicorn gifs and a crap star sparkly background. Write about how much you love being wiccan and how terrible the church is for burning witches 500 years ago. Make a multitude of spelling and grammatical errors. Take us back to '97, baby! Woo!

[Jrecee]

The early internet style is a fun idea, but for grading purposes, I don't think it's a good idea. If your prof doesn't find the joke funny, he might just assume you suck at internets.

[BoneSnapDeez]

I like retro/Geocities idea because it's gonna be about retro games... plus I love the look (I used to have several Geocities pages... and a couple on Angelfire and Tripod...).

But yeah, I don't wanna be so obnoxious that I piss off the prof.

I'm sure we've all seen this:
http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

[Jrecee]

I like retro/Geocities idea because it's gonna be about retro games... plus I love the look (I used to have several Geocities pages... and a couple on Angelfire and Tripod...).

But yeah, I don't wanna be so obnoxious that I piss off the prof.

I'm sure we've all seen this:
http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

I haven't seen it! That's fucking amazing!!!