These sites are better lookin compared to their modern version.
The facebook pic in the top banner is cool how it fades.
Why is modern design better? It is just the mobile aspect?
Web Design Museum
21–30 of 96 posts
Re: Web Design Museum
#22It is impressive how design has changed thru the years. Just compare the 1996 Space Jam web https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/space-jam-1996 with its current design https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
Re: Web Design Museum
#23The page screenshots look nice, but does the site let us look at the original HTML code and media resources that made up those pages?
Well-known sites probably have old copies stored on the Archive.org's Wayback Machine.
Re: Web Design Museum
#24You might want to also exhibit secondary pages. The front page is often not representative of the overall experience with a site, since it has different objectives and techniques (that was especially true back before the single-page era).
Re: Web Design Museum
#25Compared to others, the Apple site from 2001 holds up really well.
Funny to see them marketing their machine as a means to copyright infringement.
Re: Web Design Museum
#26CDnow 1998 is the best one https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/cdnow-1998
Re: Web Design Museum
#27Some really aged well, especially those with more extravagant designs.
Re: Web Design Museum
#28It makes me sad that the web design museum is mostly made up of corporate sites. Companies didn't take the web too seriously in the 90s and early 2000s...at least as it pertains to design.
If you wanted to look at good design back then, you went to fray.com, glassdog.com, 0sil8.com, zeldman.com, and others I don't remember. Oh boy those were the days...
Re: Web Design Museum
#29It makes me sad that the web design museum is mostly made up of corporate sites. Companies didn't take the web too seriously in the 90s and early 2000s...at least as it pertains to design. If you wanted to look at good design back then, you went to fray.com, glassdog.com, 0sil8.com, zeldman.com, and others I don't remember. Oh boy those were the days...
Fortunately Fray has all the old site up as an archive[0]. Also can't forget k10k.com and everything they linked to.
Re: Web Design Museum
#30Looking at these older websites (for me thats 1996—2002) I remember spending a lot of my time on figuring out how they really worked underneath it all. It was truly an exciting time where the differences in design and style for websites were big. Today, you don't really see personal websites anymore, and things have somehow become streamlined and pretty much just standard. There is hardly any wow effect on the web an…
On the other hand, Web standards makes it easier to use the Web.
It's easy for the masses, but less interesting for people who are interested in how things work.
But have we really reached the end of evolution in web design now? The best looking sites now look mostly the same. Nice fonts, spacey, elegant color scheme.
Maybe the next big trend is command line interfaces on the web. :)