The Rapid Growth of Web Design: Past to Present

THE RAPID GROWTH OF WEB DESIGN PAST TO PRESENT EARLY 1990'S World Wide Web he WorldWideWeb (W) is a wide-area kypermedia indormation hocess to a large universe of documents. Fuerything there is online alout Wa is Einhel direetly er indireet umnary of the project. Malinglists. Polliy. November's Wane SNAIL PACED DIAL UP What's out there L Poiters to the world's online informationsuljeca, Wase IN 1991 THE VERY FIRST WEBSITE WAS k e browier you ae uslae of Wa peslect componests and heir cumest state, (e Tools. Mailobet. Libeary) achnacal PUBLISHED BY TIM BERNERS-LEE. THE INTERNET CONSISTED MAINLY OF TEXT BASED SITES WITH NO SIGN OF VISUAL CONSIDERATIONS SUCH AS TYPOGRAPHY AND IMAGERY. LIGHTWEIGHT WEBSITES WERE BUILT AND OPTIMISED FOR THE CURRENT INTERNET SPEEDS WHICH WAS DIAL-UP. MID 1990'S Search White Flouse Pres Relemen, Radis Addremn, Phat ON TOP OF THE TABLE TABLE BASED SITES WERE INTRODUCED TAKING OVER TEXTED BASED DESIGNS, ALLOWING USERS TO CREATE MULTIPLE COLUMN WEBSITES VISUAL HIT COUNTERS STARTED TO APPEAR IN AN ATTEMPT TO SHOW AUTHORITY. FREE PAGE BUILDERS SUCH AS GEOCITIES AND ANGELFIRE MADE IT SIMPLER FOR NOVICE COMPUTER USERS TO BUILD THEIR VERY OWN WEBSITE. LATE 1990'S * Welcome to Apple Batr epet Introducing CyberDrive Rezister Joday for a free CD-ROM THE ARRIVAL OF FLASH FLASH INTRODUCED NEW ELEMENTS OF WEB Prartr Ma DA Lea abou ew M O5 dsrty Macwerid DESIGN SUCH AS COMBINING VIRTUAL Tey e GRAPHICS WITH INTERACTION. LATER ON, FLASH WOULD BE DEEMED ONE OF THE BIGGEST SEO MISTAKES OF ALL TIME AND WIDELY REJECTED AS GOOD PRACTICE. THE LATE 1990S SAW THE BEGINNING OF VISITOR FOCUSED WEB DESIGN. STRUCTURE, NAVIGATION, APPEARANCE AND USABILITY ALL BECAME IMPORTANT AREAS. EARLY 2000'S Ame EN SIARCH W Hame Hetmal Search Shopping Maney Peaple Chat msn CLICKABLE PICTURES Astes Catees Camaatha We IGas prices bt.record hinh ALTHOUGH CSS (CASCADING STYLE SHEETS) Heele Pay. Wens, HAD BEEN AROUND SINCE THE LATE 90S, IT BECAME POPULAR IN 2000. MSH New Peta CSS ALLOWED DESIGNERS TO SEPARATE WEBSITE CONTENT FROM DESIGN/STYLING AND INCREASE FLEXIBILITY IN WEBSITE LAYOUT. THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN WHITESPACE CLICK AND A DECREASE IN OUTLANDISH NEON BACKGROUND COLOURS. LINKS BEGAN TO BE ATTACHED TO IMAGES AND NOT JUST TEXT. bbccouk home MID 2000'S DROP DOWN MENUS e whal's pepeler aden Prowae WEBSITE DESIGNERS WERE BEGINNING TO Menu USE ADVANCED NAVIGATION, DROP DOWN MENUS, AND WEB FORMS, ALL THANKS TO JAVASCRIPT'S POPULAR RISE IN THE MID 2000'S THE MID 2000'S ALSO SAW THE COLLABORATIVE MOVEMENT OF THE SEMANTIC WEB. THIS AIMED AT ALLOWING MACHINES TO UNDERSTAND WEB PAGES JUST AS WELL AS HUMANS. CM.com LATE 2000'S Video THE RISE OF HTML 5 THE TERM WEB 2.0 WAS COINED WHICH SAW WEB DESIGNERS TAKE A TURN TOWARDS INTERACTIVE CONTENT AND WEB APPLICATIONS BY UTILISING JAVASCRIPT AND XML (KNOWN AS AJAX). WEB DESIGNERS USED INTERACTIVE CONTENT HTML TO HELP USERS VIEW NEW CONTENT WITHOUT HAVING TO RELOAD THE PAGE. HTML5 GAINS MAINSTREAM POPULARITY OVER FLASH. SEO WAS NOW AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT PART FOR A WEB DESIGNER TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION. aptitude. THE MOBILE WEB We Create Super Websites & Apps WwCRLAV TEEAND TCHNCA, AL RELs ano o ALL IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND ( Resporave Web Design) IN 2008, MOBILE ACCESS TO THE INTERNET EXCEEDED DESKTOP ACCESS FOR THE FIRST TIME. MANY BUSINESSES LOOKED TOWARDS CREATING A CONDENSED MOBILE VERSION OF THEIR SITE. WEB DESIGNERS FOCUSED ON TALL AND SKINNY DESIGNS RATHER THAN SHORT AND WIDE. TODAY SIZE MATTERS LIVE • LAUGH - LOVE PROFESSIONAL, SECURE B EASY TWO DECADES ON FROM THE VERY FIRST FREE WEBSITE AND WEB DESIGN HAS COME A LONG WAY. GOOD WEB DESIGN IS NOW SEEN AS AN IRREPLACEABLE PART OF EVERY MARKETING STRATEGY. RWD CRESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN) HAS RECENTLY SOARED IN POPULARITY, AIMING TO PROVIDE USERS WITH AN OPTIMAL VIEWING EXPERIENCE ON ANY DEVICE ONE SIZE FITS ALL WHICH DOES AWAY WITH THE NEED TO BUILD A SEPARATE 'MOBILE' SITE. aptitude. www.aptitude.co.uk @AptitudeTeam