A tech writer draws on their early-2000s experience at a Manhattan creative agency, recalling the wild inventiveness of the Flash era of web design, to argue that AI's ability to easily replicate existing work has shifted the real competitive edge for businesses toward original ideas rather than features or pricing. The piece uses Flash-era microsites, games and experimental art projects as examples of a period defined by genuine creative risk-taking.
inventbuild.studio
· 2026-09-10
A design professor has compiled a list of the earliest recognizable web design trends from 1993, tracing them back to the pre-boom era of the World Wide Web following Tim Berners-Lee's original 1991 page at CERN. The analysis distinguishes genuine web-native design conventions, born from the technology and culture of the time, from styles simply imported from other media. It highlights how amateur creators in the mid-1990s shaped distinctive visual genres unique to the early web.
contemporary-home-computing.org
· 2026-08-31
A web developer describes replacing pixel-based CSS measurements with the ch unit (roughly a character's width) and the ex unit (the height of a lowercase letter) on a text-heavy blog. The goal is to size content width, padding, and margins in proportion to the text itself, using an approach like max-width: min(75ch, 100%) for readable line lengths.
shkspr.mobi
· 2026-08-23
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