The Web Design Museum
Thomas Welsh Builders website homepage design.
Thomas Welsh Builders website homepage design.

Exhibit, launched December 2006

Thomas Welsh Builders

New website built for home builder serving Sea Isle City, Avalon and Stone Harbor, New Jersey.

Technology stack used

PHPCodeIgniterMySQL
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.