five thousand shades of blue
Wednesday, January 30, 2002
sometimes a circle feels like a direction....
Back in the Bronze Age days of the web (circa 1995-6) the trend towards designing a home
page and having a zillion and one internal links (i.e.
< a href="#AboutMe" >) was the thing to do. After some truly spectacular examples of eternally long pages, it then became bad form to make a
single page with a bunch of information that would take forever to load (remember, 28.8 modems were the hot new thing) and instead, make a web
site with all of that unique linkage and seperate sections on seperate pages. It was also less busy and less confusing to the eye, rather than looking at one great big wad of information.
Today? With the advent of PHP includes and CSS absolute/relative positioning, we've come full circle back to doing home
pages, where there's a body of information and a bunch of sidebars and overlays; mini-bios and quotes and links and... well, yes, I'm guilty of this myself to some extent. Not that I think it's a cardinal sin or anything; it's just an observation on my part, the fickle nature of trends (online trends specifically). This time around the single page of information is a lot like romanticized flare pants of the late 90s and today -- subtler, softer, and not half bad -- and a hell of a lot faster to load.
is
this just not enough…?
