Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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Some Innovative Web Development Trends That Will Help Your Business
(1) Mobile-First
As mobile usage has overtaken desktop usage, developers and designers have begun work with many sites using a mobile-first perspective. Since oftentimes mobile is driving nearly all revenue, making sure the mobile version of a web site features a good consumer experience (UX) is very important. Search engines like google such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo! Search rank sites by the quality and speed of mobile sites. Mobile sites that encourage interaction through gestures will increase the period of time users spend exploring a website.
(2) More Oblique/Organic Shapes
Rounded corners recently are more popular as apps use more rounded corners on elements of design for example form input and profile avatars. Backgrounds for websites as well are transitioning away from using just 90° angles and more to interesting perspectives to get interest. A bigger variety of more vibrant colors has additionally enter into style. Ensuring your websites are in keeping with current design trends encourages trust and increased sales to your business.
(3) More Interactions and Animations
Similar to what was previously mentioned about mobile, there has been an escalating popularity for desktop versions of sites to work with more animations and interactions. As a result of advancing web related technologies including jQuery, websites may be much more than mediums for your printed word. Sliding information, subtle animations, and user interactivity are advancing the potential of sites forward devoid of the ugliness of similarly designed website in the 1990s. The elevated interactivity from techniques like page transitions helps get targeted traffic to revenue-generating activity which enable it to increase the revenue per visitor (RPV) of the website.
(4) HTML 5
As mobile usage has overtaken desktop usage, developers and designers have begun work with many sites using a mobile-first perspective. Since oftentimes mobile is driving nearly all revenue, making sure the mobile version of a web site features a good consumer experience (UX) is very important. Search engines like google such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo! Search rank sites by the quality and speed of mobile sites. Mobile sites that encourage interaction through gestures will increase the period of time users spend exploring a website.
(2) More Oblique/Organic Shapes
Rounded corners recently are more popular as apps use more rounded corners on elements of design for example form input and profile avatars. Backgrounds for websites as well are transitioning away from using just 90° angles and more to interesting perspectives to get interest. A bigger variety of more vibrant colors has additionally enter into style. Ensuring your websites are in keeping with current design trends encourages trust and increased sales to your business.
(3) More Interactions and Animations
Similar to what was previously mentioned about mobile, there has been an escalating popularity for desktop versions of sites to work with more animations and interactions. As a result of advancing web related technologies including jQuery, websites may be much more than mediums for your printed word. Sliding information, subtle animations, and user interactivity are advancing the potential of sites forward devoid of the ugliness of similarly designed website in the 1990s. The elevated interactivity from techniques like page transitions helps get targeted traffic to revenue-generating activity which enable it to increase the revenue per visitor (RPV) of the website.
(4) HTML 5
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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