Web 2.0: An Experience not just a Site

Web 2.0 is the future of online websites. Back in the day everything was box designs, no rounded corners for sites, just tables. With CSS becoming more of a standard, designers have now been given the chance to have a piece of art on the web and not just a site. Gradients, big fonts, rounded corners are all now becoming a standard on the web today. So you still might want to know what WEB 2.0 is?

Defined by Wikipedia
"The term Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that lets people collaborate and share information online. In contrast to the first generation, Web 2.0 gives users an experience closer to desktop applications than the traditional static Web pages. Web 2.0 applications often use a combination of techniques devised in the late 1990s, including public web service APIs (dating from 1998), Ajax (1998), and web syndication (1997). They often allow for mass publishing (web-based social software). The concept may include blogs and wikis."


So with Web 2.0 we as web designers/developers have a lot more options to work with such as, pop up boxes on images in our sites utilized for more information. Another big thing is definitely utilizing CSS to it's full potential which will give us a higher Keywords to Code ratio in the HTML. In short that means our sites are very SEO friendly prior to any keyword research/implementation.

The main points to remember about WEB 2.0 is our options: Colors, Gradients, Font Sizes and rounded corners. To learn more about these options check out some of the following links.

Rounded Corners
A List Apart

Gradients
Photoshop Lab

Colors
Icon Buffet

Big Text
Cork'd