Web 1.0 Web Design Lives on

Posted on | February 26, 2010 | No Comments

Surprised I didn't see a blink code

Since creating my first website in 1996 on AOL and Geocities, website technology has evolved, bringing about new web design styles, techniques, and limitations have been resolved away. 14 years later what was once impossible is easily accomplished with CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, Flash and of course CSS. It has made the web a better and more aesthetically pleasing place. The old school Web 1.0 have been mostly weeded out. Yahoo killed Geocities a few months back, killing 80% of the bad Web 1.0 design left on the web.

But every once in a while… you come across a relic from the 90′s era of web design. Heading out to one of my favorite San Diego Restaurants, I encountered another. Pomegranate Russian-Georgian Restaurant‘s website is just horrible! First of all its a HomeStead page, which means someone’s continuing to pay for this thing. You would home the owner would of purchased the domain name by now. But back to the design. This site uses all the old school techniques, including an animated gif and visitor counter. Having dined at Pomegranate before I knew the food was quality and headed out for dinner a few moments later. However I feel bad for all the people that discover this website and don’t make a reservation and go somewhere else.

If you are the owner of Pomegranate Russian-Georgian Restaurant let work out a trade. I will redo this site for you and bring it up to date for a couple of dinners at your restaurant. Please email me and we can work something out.