old school web design
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- ukit0
Right...but there's no reason for designers to stop making sites like that. I'm thinking of stuff like early Designgraphik or Like A Forest by Joshua Davis. Or the first Hi-Res project. Entire sites that had no client work at all but were just there to display the designer's creativity.
- TheBlueOne0
Actually Google search algorithms ruined it...
- Corvo0
It's mostly Newstoday.com's fault.
- Spookyhome0
It wasn't just fancy intros it was the whole thing. The web used to be immersive, now its a smash and grab info source.
Probably, if we went back there, we'd realise the websites that inspired our nostalgia were little more than html pages with hundreds of hotlinks to hundreds of other html pages, but that's not the point... the attitude was one of exploration an immersion, and if that attitude and spirit had survived as a vital component of the internet and evolved/developed along with the technology and software it would be an amazing palce to surf.
Lets be honest, nobody surfs the internet anymore, we only surf chosen sites.
- yep thats what I think is sad... and its turning more into broadcast media than collaborative spaceribit
- Corvo0
The initial web graphic (and design in general) boom was also a sort of generation-thing: those kids are growing their own kids now.
- TheBlueOne0
Again the quest to master the Google algorithm and the whole church of SEO killed image & flash based sites
- I'm not talking so much about corporate sites. Talking more about designers' own sites.ukit
- doctor0
Anyway, many new features have emerged. The web isnt just about displaying pages anymore...
- morilla0
- not the right link. Trying to find their first one.morilla
- But that feels like the mysterious web I used to love even if it was the wrong link.Spookyhome
- moamoa0
- hahaha...holy crapukit
- he was one of the first. and still got this 1998 lookmoamoa
- WOW.Spookyhome
- holy... if you´re in the main menu, and wait 3 minutes you will get a big surprisemoamoa
- ukit0
- perfect examplemoamoa
- omfg! I forgot about this one.sureshot
- Perfect example. Impossible to read, heavy to load and no HTML version.doctor
- Are you kidding? What would the HTML version look like?ukit
- It would display text as text and not as images/flash (hopefully).doctor
- And what would the point of that be? No need for accessibility or SEO on a site like this.ukit
- Spookyhome0
I first explored the internet in 1996/7 before the google. The only way around it then was by either knowing a url or by leaping off a website via its links page. Links pages were really vital and enforced the idea of a net/web, becuase you would be able to envisage a physical set of bridges betwen points.
I was freelancing for Paul Smith Ltd when he got his first website. It was like opening a treasure chest. All about the man and his mad mind, not about the product he had to sell globally.
The other great thing that I miss becuase it was really fun, was that ads and things would have web addresses on, and companies were printing up oads of postcards advertising their urls, and everyone (everyone who was interested anyway) would be writing down urls in little notebooks to look up later when they got back on the web. Each new wesite brought a new links page thereby exponentially increasing the amount of the internet one could access. It was like being an explorer or a discoverer.
Naive, desperately lo-fi, but really incredibly magical and exciting.
- remember when AltaVista was the best search engine?ribit
- mimeartist0
Isn't just what you're used to?
- TheBlueOne0
It's easier to find porn, but harder to find the INTERESTING porn...
- define interesting.Milan
- that's the problem with internet porn I mean once you watched japanese schoolgirls ...see the No Internet thread for the restflashbender
- Anyone see South Park last week?ukit
- nah, no one on this board.flashbender
- Corvo0
Kids with macs - they ruin everything. Everything!
- utopian0
Classic Flash Design and it is still up:
http://www.zombo.com
- moamoa0
also oldschool