Is your website old and out of styleAssuming they aren’t worn out, would you wear the same clothes you wore a decade ago?  What about 2 decades ago?  Many of us wouldn’t be able to fit in our clothes from just a few years ago, but that is beside the point.  If you wouldn’t wear outdated clothes why would you let your business wear an outdated website.  Yes that is right, websites become dated.  Design styles change and there is a good chance that you can get stuck wearing bell-bottoms when all the cool kids are wearing skinny jeans, although I have no idea why anyone would want to be that uncomfortable.

And if you think clothing styles change too fast, then you are going to really hate the Internets (I use the term affectionately).  Not only does style change, but design theory and the concepts of user experience itself are continually growing and maturing.  Technology is rapidly evolving as well.  5 years ago Flash was all the rage, but now Flash is on it’s way out and is being replaced by jQuery and HTML5 which doesn’t require any special software that nags you about being updated all the time like Flash does.

So how old is too old for a website?  Think of it this way, technology is moving forward at an exponential rate and it now doubles every 2 years.  So that is my timeline for myself.  At two years I start looking into a redesign for any of my websites.  I do the same for my computers and try to update or replace them about every two years as well.  As a general rule if your website is pushing 3 years or more you should seriously consider at least revamping it.