{"id":563,"date":"2012-09-27T13:25:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T13:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2012-09-27T13:25:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T13:25:10","slug":"the-buzz-thats-web2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/the-buzz-thats-web2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"The buzz that\u2019s WEB2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-564\" title=\"web 2.0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/web-2.0.png\" alt=\"Search Engine Optimization\" width=\"627\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/web-2.0.png 627w, https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/web-2.0-300x104.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember those animated gif images with opening and closing doors or the bright blinking buttons? What about repeated thumbnail backgrounds and multi-colored fonts on a single page to give your pages a &#8216;design&#8217; dimension?!<\/p>\n<p>Well, thankfully, it&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve seen stuff like that on the web! Websites have surely come a long, long way from text heavy and gaudy <strong>designs<\/strong> in the early 90s to where they stand now, with the Web 2.0 look!<\/p>\n<p>While some clients understand what the Web2.0 look is, some others simply know of Web 2.0 as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/digitalmarketing\/\">buzz word<\/a> and want it implemented in website designs. The fact is that there is no such thing as a Web2.0 Standards. It is merely a set of good practices while building a website, to enable user friendly designs that look good and make sense!<\/p>\n<p>So having looked around, here&#8217;s my observation and list of what web2.0 websites look like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simple, clean, and clutter free designs<\/li>\n<li>Bold, eye-catching, and separate header sections that communicate immediately to the user<\/li>\n<li>Subtle, pastel backgrounds<\/li>\n<li>Bright and bold colored, large images that stand out<\/li>\n<li>Each image tells a story, or else it goes into the background<\/li>\n<li>Large fonts no longer constrained by the Web safe font families, with @font-face css styles<\/li>\n<li>Content is inviting and sensible, crisp and concise!<\/li>\n<li>Simple, clear and intuitive navigations, enabling users to find what they need easily and quickly. Users don&#8217;t click any more than 3 times to get to any given information they need!<\/li>\n<li>Strong call to action button, that immediately catches the eye on any web-page<\/li>\n<li>Shiny buttons, subtle gradients, and reflections<\/li>\n<li>Cute icons with clear section headers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like, I said, I&#8217;ve put together the above list with my observations of what some really great web2.0 websites look like. But, look closely at a good website and you&#8217;ll realize that elements above need not all be used together! It&#8217;s about being pragmatic and thinking as a final user, rather than as a designer trying to use every canvas as a portfolio!<\/p>\n<p>All web 2.0 websites however, follow these 3 simple rules:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Simple, bold, elegant designs; where less is more<\/li>\n<li>Less &#8216;Flash&#8217; (pun intended) and more compatible websites<\/li>\n<li>User AND Search Engine friendly websites<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My take is, that while HTML-5 is at the <strong>verge of revolutionizing<\/strong> the web completely, Web 2.0 looks like it&#8217;s here to stay, cause simply put, it&#8217;s just design that makes sense! What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those animated gif images with opening and closing doors or the bright blinking buttons? What about repeated thumbnail backgrounds and multi-colored fonts on a single page to give your pages a &#8216;design&#8217; dimension?! Well,<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/the-buzz-thats-web2-0\/\"> &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[72,109,108],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-branding-and-design","tag-digital-marketing-strategy","tag-html-5","tag-web2-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethinos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}