A clever alternate solution, which I remember showing up in a lot of Geocities sites, was to simply give every page a completely different visual style. Fuck it, right? Just do whatever you want on each new page. That trend was quite possibly the height of web design.
Excellent and funny read from Eevee. We've come a long way and forgotten a bunch more - I do honestly weep a little bit when a developer comes back proud with some React that looks the failed attempt of a thousand monkeys to write Hamlet.
https://chanc.ee/20200203-a-css-history-tour.html