Blast From The Past

As we get our office space ready for some demo/reno, we have been finding some items that have been untouched for at least a decade. One gem of a find was a book from 2000 called "Designing for the Web". Some great excerpts from it are as follows:

"When reading text on a Web screen, some of it will typically be underlined and blue -- indicating that it's a link to another place on the Internet. The link may be a URL, FTP, WWW or any one of several others. Clicking on a hypertext link will send you immediately to a new area. Incidentally, moving from one site to another is called "surfing the Net." ... Avoid Changing Link Colors. New links are coded in blue; links to old (visited) pages are purple or red. Please don't change these colors since it is hard enough to figure out the navigation... Avoid Long Scrolling Pages. Few users scroll beyond the information that is visible on the screen when a page comes up... many don't even know they can!"

While much of it is outdated, there are definitely some rules that withstand the test of time and trends... for example, "Don't Assume the Visitor is Using Your Browser" and "Make Sure Your HTML Is Squeaky Clean" and "Don't Use BLINK".

We will be sure to post any other treasures we find as we clean and organize the office. We also may be posting some items for sale.
Posted on January 24th, 2007 in Rhaya Shilts by Rhaya | Permalink