Looking back at web site designs.
Customers who contact us now in the 21st Century want fresh, standards based, SEO (Search Engine Optimised), web sites. And rightly so -Â it’s often the first impression people have of a company when they visit the site.
But it’s always fun just to see how ermm, interesting, some web site designs seem now looking back to the designs of the early 90s.
They have frames, huge text and spinning gif images, it could all look very scary back then.
So I thought I’d share this link to view more or less any web site design from the beginning of THE INTERNET!
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Take a look at
http://web.archive.org/web/19991129050057/http://websights.co.uk/Â
to see how Websights looked in 1999 - £85 for a co.uk domain name registration? Those were the days 
Then in 2001 we had a bit of a re-vamp
http://web.archive.org/web/20010707052613/http://www.websights.co.uk/
(some images are missing unfortunately).
By 2002 it was another design
http://web.archive.org/web/20010707052613/http://www.websights.co.uk/
2004:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040509150602/http://www.websights.co.uk/
It just goes to show how web standard web design has come along over more than ten years. One interesting aspect is how clean, simple design has come back into fashion - partly thanks to Google where good content triumphs over excessive design.