Musings and Amusings About Web Design
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When you stop to think about designing websites, unless a site is designed to be humorous, you wouldn’t think there is much about web design that is funny. However, when you take a look at website design from the right perspective, especially when comparing today’s website designs to historical (hysterical?) ones, you’ll find there are quite a few things that are quite funny indeed.
For example:
Code
Speed
With modems and other low-speed internet connections, building a fast website meant minimizing graphics and photos and such luxuries as videos were essentially impossible. Also, with hosting space and bandwidth limitations, a “large” website was expensive. Now, with virtually everyone connecting to the internet with a broadband connection of some type and with huge bandwidth backbones and the ability to cross-link to sites such as YouTube, leveraging video and high definition photography into your website is a snap without worrying about speed or size issues.
Storage
Time
Designing and building websites used to take forever to do. Between coding, manipulating photos and graphics to minimize page load times and other website optimizations to have a fast, great looking site, a designer could spend days on one page. This meant completing a complex website could actually run into the weeks or even months category. With high-speed internet connectivity and all the great web design tools and resources available today, building a great looking, well rounded website can be fully completed in an evening.
Maintenance
When you take a look at what you used to have to do for building websites versus what little you really have to do today, taking a look at all the expenses, all the hassles and all the hoops you had to do in the past is, without a doubt, truly funny. While there are still hoops you have to jump through today, especially with community connectivity with blogs and social media such as Facebook and Twitter and SEO evolution to consider, when you compare it to what you had to do in the past, the humor factor definitely comes into play.
Do you have any funny facts comparing old web design to new? Share in the comments section below!