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Web design History
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, published a website in August
1991.
He was the first to combine Internet communication (which had
been carrying email and the Usenet for decades) with hypertext (which had also been
around for decades, but limited to browsing information stored on a single computer,
such as interactive CD-ROM design).
Websites are written in a markup language called
HTML, and early versions of HTML were very basic, only giving websites basic structure
(headings and paragraphs), and the ability to link using hypertext.
This was new
and different to existing forms of communication - users could easily navigate to
other pages by following hyperlinks from page to page.
As the Web and web design
progressed, the markup language changed to become more complex and flexible, giving
the ability to add objects like images and tables to a page.
Features like tables,
which were originally intended to be used to display tabular information, were soon
subverted for use as invisible layout devices.
With the advent of Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS), table-based layout is increasingly regarded as outdated.
Database
integration technologies such as server-side scripting and design standards like
CSS further changed and enhanced the way the Web is made.
As times change websites
are changing inside(scripts) and out(design) because of the way programs and utilities
are created and further developed. .
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