Having recently done another personal website redesign, I wanted to take a peak backwards to see how far the web has come. And really, what a difference over ten years makes! I think my first website was about circa 1999 or so, and from then, I've had four illustration site versions, and two design site versions, before integrating them this year. There is only one version I can't seem to find any files for. Obviously my own design and web work has improved over time, since, thankfully, I'm not in high school anymore. My visual interests as well, have morphed, shuffling among infographics, doodles and clean advertising looks.

The most amazing thing though, is the speed at which web technology evolves. At first, there was nothing but plain html to set-up your website with. All tables and nothing but. Then along came Flash which was hailed as the heroic smasher of restrictive web chains. Then came all sorts of graphic heavy ways of slicing up Photoshop files to get something that actually looked cool. The real gamechanger of the past five years has been CSS. The ability to distinguish presentation from content, and lay an entire site out in a clean, unrestricted fashion and then make easy changes across the site is a remarkable development. Lately everyone has seemed to turn against Flash, but it's still going strong, along with countless other impressive technologies like Ajax, asp, Jquery, CMSs, blogging and social media. Throw the newcomer html5 into the mix and it's pretty much the wild wild web all over again.