The URL geoweb.co.uk was still in use for the Business Geographics Limited (BGL) website in 1999 but the appearance of the site, and amount of content, had evolved considerably from earlier versions.
Still largely written in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) the website now featured many more images as well as various database-driven elements, using Microsoft Access databases and the Allaire ColdFusion scripting language (now owned by Adobe), e.g., to power the News section.
Throughout the early to mid-1990s, when many of our competitors were still using paper brochures for price lists or marketing material, our website brought in many leads.
Our use of database-driven methods was also innovative, enabling us to pitch for work on higher-end projects and to develop sophisticated sites of our own, such as the 1997 UK General Election website once hosted at election.co.uk.
Fortunately, and impressively given the 25+ odd years that have elapsed since the 1997 Election or 1999 BGL websites were created, these database-driven pages written in Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) still work today.
The computer hosting this archive is running Ubuntu Linux, Apache2 and Tomcat and the open source Lucee CFML server with the UCanAccess JDBC driver for Microsoft Access databases. Back in the day it was Windows NT, IIS and the Allaire CFML server…
Bathe in the late-1990s aura of the old geoweb.co.uk website by taking a step back in time to visit the Business Geographics site as it was in mid-1999.