One of my favorite things to do is look at old website layouts, especially for inspiration about future designs. The problem is, it's difficult to smoothly browse old websites, and many websites are filled with broken images preventing us from rendering it in its full glory.
Someone who is as passionate about old web design as I am shared with me some amazing scans from various print books, most of which feature full-color screenshots of old websites, images and layouts in-tact! I hope you will enjoy these as much as I do! ♥
Books
- Navigation: the best work from the web (1999)
- Homepage and splashpage: the best work from the Web (2000)
- Color: the best work from the web (1999)
- Web animation and interactivity (2000)
- Browser 3.0 - The Internet Design Project
- WWW design: Flash, the best websites from around the world (2002)
- Advertising Now! Online (2006)
- One show interactive: advertising’s best interactive and new media (2004)
- eZines (2000)
- Web Design: Navigation (2006)
- Web Design: Navigation Index 6 (2006)
- Web Design Index 8 (2008)
- Web Design Index By Content
- Freewave (2004)
- Metalheart (2001)
- Metalheart is movement: time consumes us all (2003)
- Now loading : the aesthetic of Web graphics (2001)