(screenshots by Bob Stepno)
1995
Journalism professor Bob Stepno, calls this graphics-heavy screen the "happy valley" approach to Web Design. Each of the link areas was linked using what was then fairly complex server-side map code.
1997
The page looks more like a newspaper, with lots of links and columns. Top side transparency is a little weak.
1998
Now the TV station's Web site is looking like a TV. It could be progress.
1999
Top header is more condensed, the content seems more under control.
2002
Highly controlled, tight design, more reliance on smaller text and photos.
Note: By permission of Bob Stepno, Ph.D., "Happy Valley and Beyond: Establishing Local Identity for Online News," MIT Communication Forum, Media In Transition conference, December 1999, http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/stepno.html