Friday, June 18, 2010

How to Design a Web 2.0 Website

Web 2.0 is the next generation of websites that the ecommerce world is now turning to, to help enhance their existing sites and create web designs that are coherent and simple to navigate. The basics of Web 2.0 are less text, more images, and larger texts and as a whole less noise and confusion for visitors. All these lead to Web 2.0 being built for the future of Internet surfing and web browsing. A future dominated by enhanced broadband technology which in turn will pave the way for accessible, seamless and hassle free connection to the Internet. As a web designer, it is important to learn the fundamentals of this new, popular and successful design that ecommerce participants are turning towards for the New Year.

The basic fundamentals you want to learn include:

1. Centralize contents: it is important to keep your content in the center of the page and keep the right and left sides full of images and screenshots, etc.

2. Horizontal navigation bar: navigation text should be large and easy to read

3. Backgrounds: you have three options, gradient, colors or diagonal pattern

4. Reflection: this is one of the greatest features of 2.0 web design, creating a reflection for the images used on the website

5. Round corners: content boxes, the site itself and photo boxes

6. Ajax indicator: Ajax is always associated with Web 2.0 because of its indicator

7. Always use book marking options

8. Bright colors

9. Introduce your service in large text on the home page of the website

These are the main fundamentals of web 2.0 design you will want to learn and familiarize yourself with before you attempt to use this method with your clients. Take these fundamentals and practice until you have mastered them because this is a web design technique and category that is not soon going to die down. It is becoming incredibly popular and ecommerce websites and business owners are finding this method of design extremely successful. This means a new branch of web designing is opening for you.

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