The Web Design Museum
Carini's Ristorante website homepage design
Carini's Ristorante website homepage design

Exhibit, launched October 2006

Carini's Ristorante

New web presence for Italian restaurant in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey

Technology stack used

Classic ASPMicrosoft Access
See it live in 2006 (opens in a new tab)

The web in 2006

What was the web like back then?

  • Top browser

    IE6

    90% of users were using Internet Explorer

  • Screen size

    1024×768

    on a 15-inch flat screen, or CRT monitor

  • High-speed internet

    59%

    of US adults didn't have high-speed internet at home

Building for the web in 2006

  • New this year

    jQuery and CodeIgniter were born. IE7 finally shipped in October, five years after IE6.

  • Couldn't do yet

    Rounded corners in CSS. Internet Explorer couldn't do them until 2011, so every rounded corner was an image.