It is hard to imagine the Internet without animated graphics, different styles of typography, background, videos and music. ====The start of the web and web design==== In 1989, whilst working at CERN Tim Berners-Lee proposed to create a global hypertext project, which later became known as the World Wide Web.
During 1991 to 1993 the World Wide Web was born.
During 1991 to 1993 the World Wide Web was born.
In 1993 Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, created the Mosaic browser.
The W3C was created in October 1994 to "lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability." This discouraged any one company from monopolizing a propriety browser and programming language, which could have altered the effect of the World Wide Web as a whole.
In 1994 Andreessen formed Mosaic Communications Corp.
Throughout 1996 to 1999 the browser wars began, as Microsoft and Netscape fought for ultimate browser dominance.
On the whole, the browser competition did lead to many positive creations and helped web design evolve at a rapid pace. ==== Evolution of web design ==== In 1996, Microsoft released its first competitive browser, which was complete with its own features and HTML tags.
CSS was introduced in December 1996 by the W3C to support presentation and layout.
This allowed HTML code to be semantic rather than both semantic and presentational, and improved web accessibility, see tableless web design. In 1996, Flash (originally known as FutureSplash) was developed.
But the benefits of Flash made it popular enough among specific target markets to eventually work its way to the vast majority of browsers, and powerful enough to be used to develop entire sites. ====End of the first browser wars==== In 1998, Netscape released Netscape Communicator code under an open source licence, enabling thousands of developers to participate in improving the software.
Throughout 1996 to 1999 the browser wars began, as Microsoft and Netscape fought for ultimate browser dominance.
In 2000, Internet Explorer was released for Mac, which was the first browser that fully supported HTML 4.01 and CSS 1.
Most pages are also center-aligned for concerns of aesthetics on larger screens. Fluid layouts increased in popularity around 2000 to allow the browser to make user-specific layout adjustments to fluid layouts based on the details of the reader's screen (window size, font size relative to window etc.).
However practitioners into the 2000s were starting to find that a growing number of website traffic was bypassing the homepage, going directly to internal content pages through search engines, e-newsletters and RSS feeds.
By 2001, after a campaign by Microsoft to popularize Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer had reached 96% of web browser usage share, which signified the end of the first browsers wars as Internet Explorer had no real competition. ===2001–2012=== Since the start of the 21st century the web has become more and more integrated into peoples lives.
Jared Spool argued in 2007 that a site's homepage was actually the least important page on a website. In 2012 and 2013, carousels (also called 'sliders' and 'rotating banners') have become an extremely popular design element on homepages, often used to showcase featured or recent content in a confined space.
Jared Spool argued in 2007 that a site's homepage was actually the least important page on a website. In 2012 and 2013, carousels (also called 'sliders' and 'rotating banners') have become an extremely popular design element on homepages, often used to showcase featured or recent content in a confined space.
Jared Spool argued in 2007 that a site's homepage was actually the least important page on a website. In 2012 and 2013, carousels (also called 'sliders' and 'rotating banners') have become an extremely popular design element on homepages, often used to showcase featured or recent content in a confined space.
These automatically created static sites became more popular around 2015, with generators such as Jekyll and Adobe Muse. The benefits of a static website are that they were simpler to host, as their server only needed to serve static content, not execute server-side scripts.
In March 2018 Google announced they would be rolling out mobile-first indexing.
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