Evolution of Website Design Trends

August 6, 1991, is the date when the first website was published. In this span of 25 years, web designing trends are changed numerous times. In the first half of the 90s, tables and slicing design were pretty popular. Where tables enabled designers to align things vertically plus define things in percentages or pixels; in slicing design, a fancy layout was designed by a designer which was later broken by developers into small pieces.

In 1995, JavaScript helped designers in rising above the limitations of HTML. Designing popup menus and modifying web content dynamically became possible because of JavaScript. 1996 embarked the golden era of web design-Flash. This tool provided designers the power to define layouts, shapes, interactions, animations and fonts. However, it wasn’t search engine friendly and also consumed a lot of processing power. When Cascading Style Sheet was born, structuring design became easier. Now the presentation was defined in CSS and content in HTML.

Making websites accessible on mobiles phones was a real challenge. Here, speed was the major issue. Designers adopted the idea of column grid. Standardization of buttons, navigations, forms and other common elements in a reusable way made the lives of web designers easy. The number of mobile internet users increased very quickly and to provide the same browsing experience on screens of different sizes, responsive design was introduced in 2010.

Today’s web designing is becoming more and more complex. Websites of this era not only consists of text and images. Now we have galleries, signup forms, and many other bigger elements. Web designing trends are still evolving for improving the performance of website and user’s experience. Designers have a lot of powerful tools for designing search engine and user-friendly websites. Currently, responsive website design is still reigning. However, instead of using fancy shadow affects, designers are getting back to the flat design by simplifying visual elements.

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