Link rot
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 websites I created whilst I was still a professional web developer. Of those an impressive 22, almost half, are still online in a relevant form. Even more impressively, about five of them still have more or less the same design. A good design lasts forever.
The sites are listed in chronological order of creation:
- The Centre for Statistics in Medicine Created: 2005.
- Crowe Associates Created: 2006. Design still recognisable.
- The Patient Information Forum Created: 2006.
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Created: 2006.
- Equator Network Created: 2007. Design still recognisable.
- Childsmile Created: 2007.
- Scottish Dental Created: 2008. Now a part of the Scottish NHS website.
- SDPBRN Created: 2008. Now a part of the Scottish NHS website.
- SDCEP Created: 2008. Now a part of the Scottish NHS website.
- CASP UK Created: 2009.
- Practice Support Manual Created: 2010. Now a part of the Scottish NHS website.
- The Oxford University Careers Service Created: 2009.
- NDIP Created: 2010. Design still recognisable.
- British Nuclear Cardiology Society Created: 2010.
- People in Research Created: 2010.
- AGREE Created: 2010. Design still recognisable.
- UKCRC Created: 2010. Design still recognisable.
- The National Elf Service Created: 2011.
- Testing Treatments Created: 2011. Design still recognisable.
- Ideal Collaboration Created: 2011.
- Healthy Living Award Created: 2012.
- ACTA Community Theatre Created: 2012.
One of them has been going for almost 20 years! Let's hope it makes it into 2025.