Comments on: The Evolution of Web Design

By: Arlington

Arlington — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:07:19 +0000

Great article! I remember when Yahoo was the big thing in the 90s. Thanks for posting.

By: Paula

Paula — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:02:07 +0000

Thanks for bringing up this interesting topic. Web design as all “fashion” becomes nostalgic after a while. I am really curious to see how the future will shape web design. For sure it will become technically easier and easier, which again will highlight more the design talent.

By: Jeff Dickey

Jeff Dickey — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:21:16 +0000

What I like about “proper” Web design, then and now, is that anybody with a bit of common sense and some basic tools – often just a simple text editor – can create compelling, interesting sites. What I think the great value of HTML5 and CSS3 are going to prove to be is, keeping that spirit alive instead of devolving the Web into just a gaggle of proprietary Flash or Silverlight RIAs.

By: Yatindra Saxena

Yatindra Saxena — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:26:21 +0000

Hi very nice post. thanks for telling us the history.

Yatindra

By: Ben Stokes

Ben Stokes — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:12:00 +0000

It is amazing how web design has come on over the years, I remember using tables . . .

Nice read, thanks

By: Careytech

Careytech — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:31:28 +0000

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I do feel the evolution involves additional threads of development…

The evolving role of the CMS is equally important — from notepad, to Dreamweaver-like tools, to server-based CMS. …the increasing role of server-side technologies took us from DHTML to AJAX. …as CSS progressed and Xhtml opened new opportunities, it was the developer community that united to forfeit some backwards compatibility and build for the current/future standards.

All these things have interwoven over the past 15 years to evolve the web into its current sophisticated state.

By: Faris Nasir

Faris Nasir — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:41:14 +0000

reminds me the first time I opened yahoo on 2002, and how I thought it was so cool LOL

table-based design, yeah I still remember the ouch!’s of spacer gifs!

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:17:41 +0000

I remember using a command line to search at my college way back in the day and how we had at-length discussions about “hyperlinks” etc… Those were the days!

By: Justin Downey

Justin Downey — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:55:22 +0000

The future of web design is upon us in the form of Web 2.0.

While the demise of tables and spacer GIFs are behind us, the future includes user-generated content, discussions, best practices and editorial.

By: Rosti The Snowman

Rosti The Snowman — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:25:18 +0000

I cant wait to see what web design will look like in 10 years time!