Website Evolution at Carl Zeiss
Compared to the 150-year history of the company, the history of our homepage is very short. Within the brief time span covered by the internet, however, it is long enough for us to give you this short chronicle of how it has developed
into its current form:



April 2011
Screenshot vom Launch im April 2011 The transformation to a new user interface and infrastructure is launched with the international website for the market of camera lenses.

CMS:Adobe CQ 5.4
Provider:T-Systems Multimedia
Agency:points, Stuttgart



November 2006
Screenshot The homepage offers more room for headlines and next to the links of 'Our Solutions', the homepage features the access to products. The central image comes to the foreground.

Pages:approx. 26700



February 2006
Screenshot The homepage now has more room for headlines.
It's layout is CSS based. The code is "XHTML 1.0 strict".

Pages:approx. 24000



December 2002
Screenshot As part of the internationalization of our Web presence, a further revision is made involving design adjustments to our homepage.

Pages:approx. 8500



July 2001
Screenshot The third relaunch.

CMS:Coextant Hypernet Sitebuilder 3.5
Provider:Schott-Zeiss Consolidated Computing Center
Agency:points, Stuttgart
Pages:ca. 5000
Web server software:Lotus Notes/Domino 5.05



October 1999
Screenshot The second relaunch.

CMS:PCS Hyper.Site 2.9
Provider:Schott-Zeiss Consolidated Computing Center
Agency:-
Pages:approx. 2000
Web server software:Lotus Notes/Domino 4.6



October 1997
Screenshot The first relaunch.

CMS:our own
Provider:Intershop, Jena
Agency:Feldmann Mediagroup, Nuremberg
Pages:approx. 1000
Web server software:Lotus Notes/Domino 4.6



October 1996
Screenshot The first revision.

CMS:Text editor
Provider:Intershop, Jena
Agency:-
Pages:approx. 4000
Web server software:Apache



March 1996
Screenshot How it all started — the first home page of Carl Zeiss.

CMS:Text editor
Provider:Intershop, Jena
Agency:-
Pages:approx. 200
Web server software:Apache

Historical Information on Carl Zeiss