Wow, Websites Have Grown Up
Last week I enjoyed reading Michael Martin’s post at Pro Blog Design about how websites have changed in the last ten years, what a great summary.
I created my first website in 1997 using Dreamweaver, oh my, it was a piece of work for sure.
A few years later, I discovered CSS Zen Garden by Dave Shea and Molly Holzschag and everything changed. I immersed myself in the world of CSS and began handcoding everything and trying to learn as much as possible about web standards.
It wasn’t long before I began reading about a little content management tool called Wordpress that would allow anyone to make changes to their website. I could see this was an important idea, so Wordpress became my new game and that brings us to now.
I have tinkered with dozens of other open source and commercial content management tools, but I still like Wordpress for the majority of our clients. We are grateful to all the smart people who develop and contribute to make Wordpress the awesome tool it is.
As far as the future, I see a couple of trends that might make an impact on service websites.
The first is the idea of a lifestream website that incorporates your “stuff” such as Twitter conversations, music, photo galleries, etc., kinda like a social media business card. Josh Highland has incorporated this concept into his site, and there are many others.
The only thing I dislike about this style of website is the visual overwhelm, egad, we need a little whitespace in my humble opinion.
The other trend I wonder about it horizontal presentation with right and left directional arrows, kinda like flipping through your iphone apps. Aaron Asay has a nice example of this style, here is an example of a photography site, and a gallery of many more.
What has your web experience been? What website features do you predict?
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