Challies.com – A Visual History

Joshua —  April 4, 2011 — 4 Comments

Tim Challies (blogger, author, web designer, podcaster, family man, all around nice guy) runs one of the most well known Christian blogs on the internet. Tim has been been blogging since 2002 and over these years his site, challies.com, has worn quite a few different designs. I thought it would be neat to visit the wayback machine and view some snapshots of Tim’s site over the years.

Tim’s current site design has been an inspiration to me and has influenced my own blog. If you look closely at my blog you will notice a few hat tips to Tim’s blog. I am a sucker for web and graphic design and really enjoy Tim’s current blog design. As for his past designs…I will let you be the judge of that.

Disclaimer: Some of the snapshots are missing images and/or fail to properly display all features of the site design.

You can view the larger images by clicking.

October 2002

 

November 2002

 

March 2004

 

May 2004

 

September 2005

 

December 2005

 

July 2006

 

November 2006

 

October 2007

 

April 2011

Joshua

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  • http://www.challies.com Tim Challies

    That’s pretty funny! Way back in the day, before anyone was really reading the site, I used it as a testing ground for learning web design. So for a while there, I was changing up the design with alarming regularity. As you can see…

    • http://www.thedailybleat.com/ Joshua Breland

      Tim,

      You always had a nack for clean design though.

      Isn’t it about time for a total redesign?

      • http://www.challies.com Tim Challies

        We’re getting there. I’m starting to bump into more and more limitations within the current design so am beginning to sketch out the next generation. It’s never been just a change in look, but a reaction to a changing blog.

        • http://www.thedailybleat.com/ Joshua Breland

          Ah! Makes sense. Looking forward to the new version.