In the beginning, webpages were simple pages of text marked up with some tags that would enable a browser to display them correctly. But that meant that the browser, not the desinger, controlled how a page would look to the user, and there's nothing that infuriates designers more than having someone, or something determine the appearance of their work.
Webpages began to look more attractive and, in some cases, became more user-friendly. They had pictures, video components, animations and colourful type in attractive fonts, and were easier on the eye than the staid, unimaginative pages of the early web. They began to resemble in fact, pages in print magazines. Webpages ceased to be static text-objects fetched from a file store;instead the server assembled each page on the fly, collecting it's various graphic and other components from their various locations, and dispatching the whole caboodle in a stream to your browser which then assembled them for your delectation.
A downside: webpages began to put on weight. Over the last decade the size of webpages has more than septupled. From 2003 to 2011, the average web page grew from 93.7kb to over 679kb.
Futurists (and broadband suppliers) rejoice that this epidemic of obese webpages is driving a demand for faster (and more profitable) broadband contracts and point to the fact that communications bandwidth is increasing as a rate even faster than processing power.
Originally my website page was smaller than it's current Width: 1300 px and Length: 1000 px. The reason for my enlargement was through my research of current artist/band websites. I felt for my website to 'fit in' and look professional I had to stick with the 'norm' of creating an "Obese Website"
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