While everything changes - especially technology - nothing seems to move as fast as web development has. The web has evolved many times over so quickly that we soon realized the terms 'web 2.0' and such were out-dated before they even became real. The things we ask of the web today - banking, shopping, streaming videos and telecommunications - would all have seemed so sci-fi just 15 years ago. We often forget how young the web actually isĪnother valid reason: the web has been a moving target of needs and specifications. (TV was not the precursor to the web, despite the fact that the way the web is developing, it may appear that way not long from now.) There was never any equivalent non-digital thing from which to take direction. And for print publishing, we are talking a 500+ year history since the days of Gutenberg.īy comparison, the web was a whole new thing. While digital print publishing and video are both new, they at least had parallels in the real world, and a history from which the digital tools drew some guidance, even terminology. In this article, I'll look at the main ones - and then the good news (there is some, so bear with me). So why have these other categories far outpaced development of the web market? Why is it that the print publishing workflow has been great for so many years, as have the tools for the video market, and yet the web technology is so scattered?Īctually, there are many reasons. And yet video tools have been very polished for a long time. Even digital video, functionally introduced to the world with Adobe Premiere in 1991, only had a three-year head start from web tools. Video editors get tools like Premiere Pro - why have web designers been left behind?Ī quick comparison: desktop publishing, whose tools are far more polished, was only introduced to the world eight years earlier than the web, with the release of Aldus Pagemaker in 1986.

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