History of the web
This reading is intended to inform my own research.
Websites were originally meant for communication, to transfer information easily with a hyperlink. They were designed to work across a platform of devices ranging from being able to handle varying amounts of rendering. The font size and style relied on the machines to interpret the information and render it on the screen. All the website had was the text, and the way it was rendered across different machines varied. This is the opposite to front end designers. They design things expecting it to look exactly the way it was designed across all platforms (positioning, the look of it, aesthetics everything.) You could say the first webpage was about functionality (purpose) of communicating rather than transferring designs from print onto screen.
The reason that websites change is to fit the purpose.
People update the looks of their website to refresh their brand or identity. Or perhaps their brand has change and they need to freshen their website look to make it look recent.
This is an article about the history of the web and why I was invented.
Great example of a old website
Examples of usable websites that don't look aesthetic
Beautiful but unusable websites
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/11/25/showcase-of-beautiful-but-unusable-websites/
"Form versus Function"
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/07/10/function-is-nothing-without-beauty-10-sites-doing-it-right/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/23/does-form-follow-function/
Banking websites- form vs function
http://thefinancialbrand.com/28070/50-of-the-most-spectacular-website-designs-in-banking/
"Form versus Function"
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/07/10/function-is-nothing-without-beauty-10-sites-doing-it-right/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/23/does-form-follow-function/
Banking websites- form vs function
http://thefinancialbrand.com/28070/50-of-the-most-spectacular-website-designs-in-banking/
