web design

Web design in the early days was full of potential pitfalls. You couldn't make pages too wide, or people would have to figure out how to scroll left and right. You couldn't make pages too long - people would miss information that fell "below the fold". You had to limit the colors you used, or what you thought was blue might show up as red on a user's screen. And creating multimedia was often a waste of effort, because most people had slow web connections.