Early Web Design & Automotive Internet Marketing Archive

Author: WebGraphicsRus

  • A Flash Site That Still Runs – Babylon Business Campus

    A Flash Site That Still Runs – Babylon Business Campus

    Some things from the early web era exist only in memory. This is not one of them. Babylon Business Campus in Horsham, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania has been a client since…

  • The Dynamic Description Creator

    The Dynamic Description Creator

    The Dynamic Description Creator was not a complicated idea. It was a practical one. Anyone who has ever had to write individual descriptions for a lot full of cars understands…

  • Recovering Files from Old Hardware

    Recovering Files from Old Hardware

    There is a Dell workstation sitting in my office that has not been a primary machine in a very long time. At some point it stopped being the computer I…

  • Flash Was Not a Gimmick

    Flash Was Not a Gimmick

    If you were building websites in the early 2000s, Flash was not optional. It was expected. Clients wanted animation, movement, and sound. Static HTML pages felt flat by comparison. Flash…

  • Dealer Login Systems Before the Cloud

    Dealer Login Systems Before the Cloud

    Today if you need a client login system you pick a platform, configure it, and move on. There are dozens of options and most of them take an afternoon to…

  • When ASP Was the Answer

    When ASP Was the Answer

    There was a period in the early 2000s when Active Server Pages was the answer to a lot of web development questions. Not because it was perfect but because it…

  • Southampton Motor Cars – A Dealer I’ve Trusted for Over 20 Years

    Southampton Motor Cars – A Dealer I’ve Trusted for Over 20 Years

    Over the years, I’ve worked with a lot of car dealers through my business, C Jay’s Custom Auto Accessories. Some were good, some not so much, and a few stood…

  • The Up Bus and the Information Super Highway

    When WebGraphicsRus first began, the web was a very different place. In the early 2000s, animated GIFs, Macromedia Flash intros, and table-based layouts weren’t retro — they were cutting edge.…