The Web Design Museum
Powerplay Realty Homepage.
Powerplay Realty Homepage.

Exhibit, launched August 2008

Tim Kerr's Powerplay Realty

Website re-design for an Avalon Real Estate Agency.

Technology stack used

PHPCodeIgniterMySQL
Sale Listing detail page.
Sale Listing detail page.
Photo Galleries page.
Photo Galleries page.
See it live in 2008 (opens in a new tab)

The web in 2008

What was the web like back then?

  • Top browser

    IE6

    79% of users were using Internet Explorer

  • Screen size

    1024×768

    on a 15-inch flat screen

  • High-speed internet

    49%

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

Building for the web in 2008

  • New this year

    Google launched Chrome on September 2.

  • Couldn't do yet

    Video without Flash. No browser had the HTML5 video tag yet.