About Web Design: Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World
Wide Web published a website in August 1991, making him also
the first web designer. His first was to use hypertext with an
existing email link.
Early on, websites were written in basic HTML, a markup
language giving websites basic structure, and the ability to
link using hypertext. This was new and different to existing
forms of communication - users could easily open other pages.
As the Web and web design progressed, the markup language used
to make it, known as Hypertext Mark-up Language or HTML,
became more complex and flexible. Things like tables, which
could be used to display tabular information, were soon
subverted for use as invisible layout devices. With the advent
of Cascading Style Sheets, table based layout is increasingly
regarded as outdated. Database integration technologies such
as server-side scripting and design standards like CSS further
changed and enhanced the way the Web is made.
The introduction of Macromedia Flash into an already
interactivity-ready scene has further changed the face of the
Web, giving new power to designers and media creators, and
offering new interactivity features to users. Flash is much
more restrictive than the open HTML format, though, requiring
a proprietary plugin to be seen, and it does not integrate
with most web browser UI features like the "Back" button.
A relatively new technique called Remote Scripting has allowed
more dynamic use of the web without the use of Flash or other
specialized plug-ins. Leading the various techniques is Ajax,
although other methods are still common, as Ajax is not a
fully developed standard.
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