Web design has come a long way from the 1990s when we barely used CSS and the height of style was a rainbow horizontal line graphic and blinking "under construction" sign. But there have been some really great developments. DHTML and now Ajax come to mind. As well as CSS for layouts and browsers that support it.
What are the best things that happened in the Web design world in the last decade (2000–2009)? Was there a tool that came out that shouldn't have or maybe a technique that designers used heavily that should go out to pasture.
Open Source Languages like PHP
Open source php and other languages have made web design much better, in my opinion. Big companies have teams of individuals that have expertise in one area. Then they combine it all to produce somet…
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CSS and SSI - Two Great Web Tools from the 2000s
Both of these improvements and the acceptance (standardization) of them into modern browsers have helped reduced the amount of work and coding needed to design sites and update them. Now I can focus …
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