| Web design has come a long way since its inception | | | | and designers merged together in symbiotic splendor |
| in the early nineties. It has been a long, eventful | | | | to create tools and scripts that displayed websites in |
| journey to get where it is today. In fact the whole | | | | unimaginable ways. From navigation, to analogue |
| story of web design has been about people power, | | | | clocks and countless other widgets and coding, |
| demand and ingenuity that is probably beyond | | | | JavaScript injected a surge of excitement and |
| compare in the whole of human history. | | | | glamour into our web designs. |
| From the very beginning when html tables were | | | | Then along came the real star of the show, Flash. |
| invented to display numerical and mathematical data, | | | | Flash media has the capabilities to wow us beyond all |
| web designers were hacking and distorting the code | | | | reasonable expectations. It took a long time to come |
| to create something that would be pleasing on the | | | | to the forefront, as the power of Flash is way |
| eye. Tables were never meant to contain images and | | | | beyond what dial up Internet connections could |
| display layouts, but the ingenuity of web designers | | | | afford us. It took fibre optics and broadband |
| produced some beautiful looking designs from these | | | | connections to deliver us the full potential of Flash. |
| most basic of building materials. | | | | Now here we are in the 21st century, with 50Mb, and |
| Then came the day when web design really opened | | | | even 100Mb Internet connections (and rising fast), |
| up with the development of CSS. CSS was a | | | | and Flash is about to deliver us to the Promised Land. |
| godsend to web designers and allowed ways to | | | | Web design has entered a whole new era, and |
| design far beyond the constraints of html tables. | | | | websites are now, and soon to be even more, truly |
| Separate CSS style sheets were introduced to make | | | | amazing. Flash video has pushed the envelope even |
| site wide design changes a breeze. Search engines | | | | further and soon we can expect not just websites, |
| became quicker as code become cleaner and web | | | | but mini TV shows delivered to us via our web |
| design entered a new golden age. | | | | browsers. Speech recognition, glorious animation and |
| Of course web designers are never content with | | | | high definition video mean exciting times are ahead |
| what they have. They need to continuously push the | | | | for web design in the 21st century. Compare the |
| boundaries and evolve. Maybe this is a credit to the | | | | early days of Hollywood and the silent movies to the |
| amount of competition there is in the web design | | | | Technicolor wet dream of the Star Wars trilogy and |
| industry. Always needing to keep one up on the | | | | you might get an idea of where the Web is heading. |
| competition pushes humans to find new and | | | | Strap yourselves in, make yourselves comfortable, |
| innovative ways to develop and grow. | | | | share a big bag of popcorn, and prepare to be |
| JavaScript was the next star to shine in this unfolding | | | | amazed! |
| theatre we call the World Wide Web. Programmers | | | | Thank you for reading. |