Remember when making a website was kind of a big deal?

Back in the early to mid 1990′s, Ace of Base “Saw the Sign” and people paid $500.00 for each page on a website. Knowing how to build a website for the “information super highway was major. To put together the most basic, static web page, you had to know HTML, how to use FTPs and to some extent even how to work on a server.  You needed to know fancy programs like Photoshop.  And how about that gif builder?
CSS wasnt read by browsers, it was almost considered something similar to HTML 5 of today – a lot of people were excited that in the near future “sites with CSS are going to be really fancy, neat, awesome!”

It’s crazy how we take for granted how super fast and easy it is to build a website now.

Today you can make a basic, dynamic website, one that gets the job done and doesn’t embarrass you, with exactly zero technical ability. You can literally click and drag your way to a nice, custom site.

If you’re about to go some kind of networking event or pitch for a project and want to refer people back to your site or blog, but you don’t have a site or blog, it’s not a problem. Because you can make one in minutes. Just log-on to a hosting platform (like oh I don’t know, how about Motioncore) and snap into place all the pages you want. And if you decide that you also want to start selling widgets you love, like t-shirts you can do that too. Just scroll over to “add shopping cart” click and you’re in business. With the flick of a wrist you have an ecommerce website.

Since everything is done with web-based applications now, there’s no need to tear your hair out over various fixes. If you don’t like where a page is or you want to move anything, it’s ridiculously easy –just like moving cups and saucers around on a table until you like the arrangement.

It used to be that if I didn’t like where something was on a website that it might have required a major reconstruction. It took hours if not days. People came out with solutions like tables within tables to line up things since they didn’t have CSS.  And eventually, when all the Minority Report, technologies are here it will be even easier. I’ll just draw smiling face in the air and send people into a space portal.

I find it funny thinking about the 1990′s. Even not long ago in early 2000, the net was in its infancy, regardless of the hype and the bubble by today’s standards, it was quite silly. I was never much of an Ace of Base fan but I did like my pager in 90s and my Pentium III. And don’t get me started on raves and wide baggy pants….