WHAT IS WEB2.0 TECHNOLOGIES

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WHAT IS WEB2.0 TECHNOLOGIES

Web 2.0 is the revolution in the website design and development world and can be thought as the another kind of communities that are web-based like the forums, communities, social networking sites and many other hosted services which aim to encourage the sharing of information and views, creativity and user interactivity between the users.

Tim O'Reilly, the founder of the O'Reilly Media and the supporter of the open source and free software movements, defined it as:

"Web 2.0 is a business revolution in this computer industry caused by a move to Internet as the platform, and a try to understand the success rules on the new platform."

Technical Overview
A web 2.0 website may usually feature a number of following techniques:

Rich Internet application techniques, optionally Ajax based
Cascading Style Sheet, CSS
Semantically valid XHTML markup and the use of Micro formats
Organization and collection of data in RSS/Atom
Clean and meaningful URLs
Excessive use of folksonomies (in the form of tags or tagclouds)
Use of wiki software either completely or partially (where partial use may grow to become the complete platform for the site) partially, e.g. the LAMP solution stack
XACML over SOAP for access control between organizations and domains
Blog publishing
Mashups (A mix up of content and Audio usually from different musical style)
REST or XML Web service APIs.

Characteristics of simple Web 2.0 Website

Before making any Web 2.0 site, the Designers and Programmers must keep in mind the following things, which suits the Web 2.0 technology and the site runs smoothly on the web.

Design Concern:

The design of the site is the fundamental thing. The web designers should have to design a very simple, sober and noise-free site that has less contents, more images and large fonts. The alignment of the content should be in the center of the page.

Navigation:

Usually in Web 2.0, navigation exists in the horizontal side and it is in large clear fonts.

Backgrounds:

The background varies in colors depending upon the nature of the site. It can be either to be gradient colors or diagonal line pattern.

Reflection of the Image:

The containing image in the website should make of the image that put dogmatic impact on the visitors. The attached image should be in the rounded corners in the contents boxes or in buttons. It is appropriate to use the thumbnail image as users can see the larger size of the image. So, the Developer should use the Light box to show the large version of an image.

Ajax and RSS:

Ajax is the part of Web 2.0 and without it Web 2.0 technology is incomplete. It makes the techniques more usable, attractive and fast. On the other hand, RSS has been used for syndicating the content, which easily feed the content to the visitors. The developers must use the RSS feed icon on the optimum position so that visitors can reach their easily.

Bookmarking :

Social bookmarking is the new trend for sharing the contents. It not only enhances the reach of the content to far and wide surfers but also it attracts the traffic towards the site. There are some major popular social bookmarking sites that are being used for bookmarking on the larger scale such as digg, delicious, furl and reddit. Use the icons in your site to make your visitors bookmark your site.

Users Contribution :

The user’s contribution is the main key characteristics of Web 2.0, so always try to lead the users' contribution through several means like adding comment section, wiki section and content sharing and submitting section.

Audio, Video and Multimedia material:

Advance audio, video and multimedia material is the backbone of the any Web 2.0 based sites, it fills fuels on the site and the traffic of the site has been increased. The multimedia content must also be wikis as any user can watch it, save it, share it and can also submit its own creation on the site.

Moreover, above characteristics, some other things are also important like the font size must be larger and clear, bright and strong color should be used in the site design, etc.

Every Web Designer Should Know these Things

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Your Web site Goal

Ist You have to think your goal, when you are building a website?May be you are giving any message to public or making money online or to tell a story with a personal website on the web.

keep it simple

Everybody knows simplicity is beauty.Always keep your mind Your design should be simple,
easy to understand and userfriendly.

Basic knowledge about HTML,

HTML is the right tool to give a effective web page. This will help you execute properly your Design.If You don't know Html,You can search for online tutorial (like w3school tutorial for HTML)Html is very easy to learn.

Use Pefect fonts

While you are creating a webpage You have to use pefect font . fonts like "Helvetica", "Arial", and "Time New Roman".If you any another stlish fonts,you can download from net .

Use Small size images .

Try to to use small size of image in your web page. The lower the file size of images, the faster the loading process of your web site. Save the images with graphic formats such as . GIF,PNG & jpeg,extension.

Proper coding

HTML is easy to learn and use. Just keep simple and clear. Avoid any unused coding in your page. SEO prefer websites with clean and proper coding. So your site will get higher rank in google.

Web designer

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I am a web designer.I love design work.Design is my Passion.