The oldest (and best) Harry Potter website, The Leaky Cauldron, has just updated their layout today. It seems like a good opportunity to feature them on Websites Through The Years.
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Websites Through The Years: The Leaky Cauldron
Jul 27, 2007 by Matt | Posted in Design No CommentsWebsites Through The Years: Blogger
Jul 26Blogger, perhaps the most famous free blog provider, pretty much kick-started the blog phenomenon. Though Blogger doesn’t measure up with a self-hosted WordPress installation, it’s a heck of a lot better than LiveJournal and WordPress.com. October 12, 1999 Not much, is it? This is…
Websites Through The Years: Ars Technica
Jul 24Ars Technica is one of my favorite tech news sites. Though they’ve been around since 1998, they’ve had very few layout redesigns. Nowadays they have an ultra-cool design, but they didn’t start out that way… April 22, 1999 I despise (most) designs with a…
Websites Through The Years: CNet
Jul 23Welcome back to Websites Through The Years! Today we tackle CNet, one of the oldest tech sites. We’ll start with the earliest design the Wayback Machine could find: October 1996. October 22, 1996 Nothing says “90s” like a design like that! Okay… The yellow…
Websites Through The Years: Yahoo
Jul 22After the success of Web Sites Before and After, I decided to start an article series going more in-depth about the various websites. In Websites Through The Years, I’ll be picking some designs and, with the help of the Wayback Machine, going over the…
Web Sites Before and After
Jul 17What have websites looked like over the years? With the help of the WayBack Machine, we’ll take a look. Below are eight sites. Each has a prior design on the left and the current on the right. Nice ‘n easy to compare.
Developing for the iPhone
Jul 11The Apple iPhone is out, and the web is filled with everything you could possibly want to know about the iPhone…and plenty you don’t. Sure, the iPhone can display normal web pages correctly, but the iPhone offers an interesting new opportunity: More powerful mobile…
Design Spotlight: North X East (July 6, 2007)
Jul 6Today’s highlighted design is….North X East. The owner of NxE, Collis Ta’eed, is obviously a designer. Take a look at the current design (as of July 6, 2007….who knows? It could change again. ). It’s not your ordinary blog design. It’s pretty unique. Then…
Creating a Favicon
Jun 28A Favicon, as you may already know, is that tiny icon that sits to the left of a web site’s URL in modern browsers (and in your bookmarks menu). Usually they’re 16×16 pixels in dimensions. Want to learn how to make one for your…
Design Spotlight: June 27, 2007 (The Leaky Cauldron)
Jun 27Welcome to Design Spotlight. Today we have The Leaky Cauldron. The Leaky Cauldron, or TLC (or “Leaky”) for short, is the oldest Harry Potter news site. Older, and larger, than Mugglenet (the second-largest Harry Potter site). We’re here to analyze their design, not talk…
