Imagine if you were viewing this site on a 1440 baud modem; every dot would take seconds to appear! That is just where all this started for us back in 1994!
1994 Web "zero" - What a Terrible Joke!!!
How scary it was when I think about it! HTML the forerunner to XHTML was a very old machinery code that was next to useless BUT it was used and has developed. In those days text ran from screen edge to screen edge; there were no white space margins and I remember when we managed to get an image centered on the page - what a triumph for web development! Some fool somewhere managed to add images as backgrounds and an era of unreadable web space was commenced, just occasionally I spot some hang overs from those very bad days!
It really took until about 1990 for web technology to be useful; at least have some basics to control page position and the relationship to the viewer's screen.
Web Site Development - History Summary
The staff at Queensland Net have been on this joyous ride through technology until today. So much has matured; but there is still a long way for it all to travel. As a web designer we really all want to see the day that standards are really just that - "standard" meaning all the same; so a web site viewed on Firefox, Explorer version X, on Windows or a Mac both resemble each other. We will never be pixel perfect but it is worth the dream and one all of todays web designers share!
We often have potential clients ask for a quote then drop lines like "Our nephew is doing IT at college, we may get him to perhaps design us a web site to save a few dollars!" That is like asking a relative doing business studies to take over your Super fund to save the fees - very silly but we hear it often and flinch!
All the web sites that Queensland Net designs today are based on the new industry standards like CSS and XHTML simply because they are faster and the rendering is far better than the old "bloated" code that tables based sites produced. A CSS web site can be 70% smaller (remembering smaller is faster for all site visitors). So while the development process may be a little more in depth, the results are just so superior.
We never ever make working reference to "The Good Old Days!" as they simply were not very good at all!