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 The World Wide Web was initially developed as a means of contact between universities using Email and Usenet and quickly spread as a fast and efficient means of transferring information and communication. In 1991 the inventor of the World Wide Web uploaded the first website. The first websites were written in a basic form of HTML and generally appeared more like article text pages of headings and paragraphs. The introduction of Hypertext gave users the ability to easily navigate between pages and find what they were looking for.
The technology quickly moved on to allow more features to be applicable to these early websites allowing more flexibility and enabling site builders to add things like objects and tables. CSS (cascading style sheets) and Database integration also increased design standards and websites were becoming more appealing visually and in accessibility. It soon became apparent that not only was this new communication technology a great way to share information, but it could also become a resource for advertising, marketing and selling. It was with this new found market resource that the website owners realised that to maximise customer impact they needed to have more attractive sites, more functionality and basically ensure that their site had a higher impact than their competitors. This opened a whole new area of expertise – web designers. These people usually moved into the field from areas such as the relatively new computer programming career and graphic design careers. |
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