The Evolution of Websites

Herzl Camp

As you can see, the Herzl Camp website has changed drastically since 2001. The old website, shown on the left, contained only a block of content in the middle of the webpage, while the new website, on the right, fills the entire screen.  The font for the logo remained the same, although the colors are different.  The new website shows just a picture of the lake, contrasting from the small collage of camper pictures displayed on the old website.  The simply displayed links on the 2001 website make the site almost easier to use than the dropdown links the new website has on it's toolbar.  While the new website may be aesthetically pleasing, the simpler layout of the old website makes it much more easy to use.

The code of the two websites are very different, too.  Because of the way html used to be, the 2001 code has a lot of table and td tags, and not very many divs.  Now, we don't use many tables and instead use divs and lists.  There's less code in the old website because there was so much less content  then on the new site.

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Pandora

The pandora website from 2006 didn't not have much aesthetic design.  It consisted of mainly text describing what the purpose of the website was, and had a plain yellow background.  This is very different from the 2015 version, where there is only a short description and a type box to instantly create a radio station.  The background is blue, with a floating circle design.  The font for the Pandora logo is still the same.

Like the Herzl website, the old version of HTML contained a lot of tables and td tags.  The 2015 version uses a lot of divs, which makes the overall code easier to read.  The old website still had less code due to how much less content it had.

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Skype

The old Skype website was very clunky looking.  It had a busy layout that made it hard to process all the different aspects of the webpage.  The new webpage, however, developed a scrolling layout that looks much sleeker but still contains all the information. The Skype bubble logo is still the same, but it changed from green to blue.

Like the other two websites, the old version contains a lot of tr and td tags, which makes the code look really messy.  The updated website has a lot of div tags, which make the code look much more organized and manageable.