Website History Blog#2

 

                        History of a Web Designing Part 2:

    1993- The Birth of a Landing Page: MTV launched its website in 1993. MTV was an early adopter of landing pages. MTV.  By the end of 1993, there were 623 websites, according to a study by MIT Researcher Matthew Gray. The internet was taking off and so was design. A landing page is a web page that appears when a visitor clicks on a PPC ad or a search engine result link. The home page of a website is not the only landing page; every page in a website has a purpose and is a potential search engine landing page.

    

1994 - Using Ads to Add to Your Design: The online marketing world is much older than many think. While many sites become overcrowded with ads during the 90s. Hot-wire, now known as Wired, did a nice job of adding the world's first banner ad into their site's header in 1994.The Internet continued to boom. By mid-1994 there were 2738 websites,according to Gray's statistics; and by the end of the year, more than 10,000.

                            

JAVA-SCRIPT on the Verge: The future of the web was shaping quickly! JavaScript helped designers overcome the limitations of static HTML by allowing them to bring some motion to the web. This gave birth to the "pop-up" window. Today, JavaScript is still going strong. Most notably with the front-end version known as JQuery