As many know I’ve been using WordPress for web site design for a number of years now. This years ambitious project was Cowichan Valley Photos, a WordPress site using the Atahualpa theme. The theme is very flexible and I would highly recommend it to anyone that is looking for great flexibility in the design process. Having questionably mastered the Atahualpa theme I decided to update my large Gulf Islands web site The Gulf Islands Guide using Atahualpa as well. What a difference! This is the fifth design update in the past 11 years and seems to make the site look a little more modern but at the same time open up more possibilities for advertising. I’m looking for design number 1, hopefully I can locate it!
Is the design better? It’s really hard to compare the sites as the internet has changed so much in the past decade. The earliest sites had to work with a maximum screen resolution of 600×800 and most of us either didn’t have internet access or were on a painfully slow dial up connection. The new site is designed for a width of 1280 and assumes that most people now have high speed connections although I realize that many still don’t. Platforms like WordPress are now available and searchable databases are the norm.
How things have changed!
The Gulf Islands Guide 2009
The Gulf Islands Guide 2008
The Gulf Islands Guide 2001
The Gulf Islands Guide 2000
