Today’s
websites are a far cry from what they used to be more than 20 years
ago. During an era when responsive web design, CSS, and vector
graphics hadn’t yet come to the fore, the first websites were
nothing more than lines of text. Some of them sported an iconic
purple colour and underline, a hyperlink. Back then, images on a
website were considered top-notch.
However,
words aren’t enough to describe these early websites. To appreciate
how the Internet has evolved over the decades, pick your favourite
website and open it on one tab, then open the site created by Tim
Berners-Lee himself
(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html). You’ll be
surprised at how far the World Wide Web has come today.
New
technology was slowly introduced and integrated into web design;
hyperlinks gave way to Flash and bitmap images were replaced by
vector graphics. Nevertheless, the major shift in trends didn’t
necessarily mean the basics have sunk into obscurity. Aspiring web
designers start their lessons with basic HTML, which still has
applications today.
It’s
a fact of life that learning from the present helps us deal with the
present. That’s why new website design technology, as with other
inventions, are born out of necessity. CSS and other scripts may be a
cut above HTML, but they must not forget why they were made in the
first place.
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