Link rot

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I've posted about link rot before. Unfortunately links keep breaking, including presumably on my own site, although I do try to avoid that.

Recently I went through the 50 or so websites I created whilst I was still a professional web developer. Of those an impressive 22 are still online in a relevant form. The design might have changed completely, as might the website itself, but the topic is still the same. Even more impressively, five of them do in fact still have more or less the same design. A good design lasts forever.

The sites are listed in chronological order of creation:

  1. The Centre for Statistics in Medicine Created: 2005.
  2. Crowe Associates Created: 2006. Design still recognisable.
  3. The Patient Information Forum Created: 2006.
  4. Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Created: 2006.
  5. Equator Network Created: 2007. Design still recognisable.
  6. Childsmile Created: 2007.
  7. Scottish Dental Created: 2008. Now a part of the Scottish NHS website.
  8. SDPBRN Created: 2008. Now a part of the Scottish NHS website.
  9. SDCEP Created: 2008. Now a part of the Scottish NHS website.
  10. CASP UK Created: 2009.
  11. Practice Support Manual Created: 2010. Now a part of the Scottish NHS website.
  12. The Oxford University Careers Service Created: 2009.
  13. NDIP Created: 2010. Design still recognisable.
  14. British Nuclear Cardiology Society Created: 2010.
  15. People in Research Created: 2010.
  16. AGREE Created: 2010. Design still recognisable.
  17. UKCRC Created: 2010. Design still recognisable.
  18. The National Elf Service Created: 2011.
  19. Testing Treatments Created: 2011. Design still recognisable.
  20. Ideal Collaboration Created: 2011.
  21. Healthy Living Award Created: 2012.
  22. ACTA Community Theatre Created: 2012.

One of them has been going for almost 20 years! Let's hope it makes it into 2025.

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