Classics, 1995–?
Funky icons, real ads that almost ran. Swimming pools, movie stars. Here you’ll find zeldman.com content dating from 1995 on, mainly in its original (crummy) format.
The Ad Graveyard
Real ads that almost ran. 1995–1998. Still popular among bored office workers.
Pardon My Icons
Unusual icons for your desktop or website. 1995–1998. Still often used as avatars in online discussion communities. The project began as a protest against the ugly mediocrity of mid-’90s web icons. Then it turned into a shoddy sort of Warhol homage. Now it is just a giggle in the web’s collective unconscious.
If the Great Movies Had Been Websites
Instead of making Citizen Kane, what if Orson Welles had simply published a web diary? 1999.
Fifteen Minutes
Interviews with movie stars and web designers, 1996–1999, in original cheesy format.
Wallpaper
Dress that desktop for success. (1997?)
waterbox
For your listening pleasure, music by Jeffrey Zeldman.
Mr Jenkins’s Last Martini (removed)
The web’s first alcoholic haiku contest. Come to think of it, the web’s only alcoholic haiku contest. 1996–1999.
Ask Dr Web 1995–1998 (removed)
An online guide to designing and building websites. Removed because the presentational techniques it advocated have long since become outdated thanks to web standards.
Gifplex
Early multimedia experiment. 1995. Animated GIFs. Woo!
Lawrence Welk, Postmodernist
We come to praise him. 1995.
Letter from Istanbul
Rocking the cradle of civilization. An unfinished travelogue. 1998.
