#TBT (Throw Back Thursday) Cooper Management website circa 2003
(Keep the year in mind when you’re watching this video. It is a website for a company that has since been absorbed into one of the national financial service franchises.)
Video seemed more appropriate for this post so you can see the hover effects and several pages as well as some other key features of the site.
Many of sites I designed before 2006 or so are what I called scalable or fluid sites so that no matter the screen size, no matter the window size, the design and content fit. This would now technically be called responsive design today.
HOWEVER I would NOT design a site using a table based layout at this day in age which is how I achieved this back in 2003. (Designers / developers know what I’m talking about here!)
The technology was simply different at that point in time. You did not have the number of smartphones / really small screens and you also didn’t have the really large monitors that you see more of today. That said, this still works seamlessly in modern browsers from my archive files.
It’s also very basic and clean website that gave a quick business overview, included their logo and included their contact info with consistent navigation and footer information across both pages. Not bad for 2003 right? 🙂
Some quick screen shots as well:
