Web 2.0 web design
Many of the changes in Web 2.0 can be seen through common design practices. Old-style HTML was full of boxes and square tables. Today's web designers are rapidly moving away from boxy designs to flexible curves. When designing for today's Internet, it's all about rounded designs, nice big text, gradients, glassy effects, and bright colors. Every one of them had a favicon too. Learn how to make a favicon.
Designs have gone from glossy and unsubtle, through the clean designs using css only to go back to a more graphic style.
Rounded Corners:
These aren't new, but if you want to go to this sort of design here are some tutorials
http://www.webcredible.co.uk
http://www.alistapart.com
http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aa072406.htm
Nice Big Text:
Have you ever been to a web site where you could barely read the text? With Web 2.0, oversized fonts have come into style. You can start using plenty of oversized text to make important messages stand out. Of course, you don't want all of the text on your web site to be large, but make sure that the most important text on the page is bígger than normal text.
Gradients:
Gradients are another popular design element of Web 2.0. This is especially true of backgrounds. A common background used today has a gradient at the top, fading down to some other colour that continues throughout the background for the rest of the page.
For a complete tutorial on how to create this type of effect, go to http://www.photoshoplab.com
Colours:
Web 2.0 sites are strongly defined by their colours. They nearly always use bright and cheery colours - lots of blue, orange, and lime green.
They also often include large, colourful icons, sometimes with reflections and drop shadows. To see some samples of how web sites are effectively using bright colours, take a look at:
http://www.9rules.com
http://www.linkedin.com
Have a look at my blogs too. They are designed by someone other than me.
Other common design characteristics include the use of tabs, reflections, glassy effects, large buttons, and big text boxes for submission forms.
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I
got a computer way back when. I was linked to the internet, before the
school I taught in had it. So I learned about computers first and then
as I was a teacher librarian I learned a computer system which we used
to computerize the stock. We had to teach students and teachers how to
use it. How to search. At home I was learning to use HTML and images on
the site I had back then. When the school was ready to create a site for
itself I was all for it and wanted to do it. However, the job was given
to the computer techie of course. After I left that school and at another
I had much more access to the internet and collected many sites suitable
for students and teachers to assist with their learning. Then, after retirement
I started learning web design and as I did, being a teacher, I developed
some tutorials, which you will find on this site. I also take photos.
