After 21–22 years, we’ve redone the links’ pages on the Jack Yan & Associates website. The old template dated from 2002, and, oddly, while cellphone browsers from a decade ago could by default enlarge the type to suit, modern ones can’t. (I’m still waiting for the software developers to incorporate the Bitstream technology from the 1990s that reduced full web pages to smaller screens. But considering no one has yet caught up to WordPerfect’s functionality in terms of word processors after three decades, I imagine certain things will not happen. Inertia seems to be a major thing in computing, as in a lot of fields.)
A lot of the copy is still what we wrote in the 2000s, and there’s one thing we’ve kept from the old pages: the header graphics.
While the graphic was designed to tile in a table cell background, the idea was that most people would never see the tiling, since few screens were over 1,024 pixels in width in those days. When you see it now on the page, in full, untiled, you realize how much wider screens are today.
It’s also a tiny glimpse, albeit skewed and changed into duotone, of what web pages looked like in 2002–3 (most were 2002, the social responsibility page’s one was 2003, if I remember correctly).
Everything else follows the familiar Bootstrap template from BootstrapMade that made its début on the JY&A Media website earlier this year.
It’s open to question if the new look is an improvement on the desktop, but it is certainly miles better for cellphones and handheld devices.
As usual, a few dead links were removed in the process, but happily we did have things to add.
These aren’t major pages by any means, but it’s good to see the consistency again. It was a lot easier to facelift a website in the 2000s when you didn’t have many different devices to contend with. Now, you have to take it in stages, and it takes that much longer. Fortunately, JY&A doesn’t look like it has four different websites cobbled together any more.
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