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:

  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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