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Web Design Trends

Web Design Trends

Websites follow trends all the time. A while ago it was hard to find a website that didn’t have some kind of Flash animation. That went the way of the Dodo pretty fast as technology caught up and mobile companies refused to integrate flash players on devices. We also saw the seemingly meteoric rise of do-it-yourself websites based on templates, and the use of WordPress with better and better themes as the years passed. From a design standpoint, form usually followed function, as well as how easily it could be integrated.

Here are some of the trends that are we’re seeing now in the web design world.

Header layouts

Whereas the trend in the past has been to have an almost full screen slider at the top of your design,

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Google Algorithm to change in favor of Mobile-Friendly websites

Google Algorithm to change in favor of Mobile-Friendly websites

The Google Algorithm is set to change in about a week, and it will be rewarding Mobile-Friendly websites. Here’s some helpful info and what you need to know:

Google announced the change on its Webmaster Central Blog in February and has done a thorough job preparing marketers and website owners to predict how the change may affect their site and search traffic.

Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results. Consequently, users will find it easier to get relevant,

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Is your website ready for mobile?

The mobile web is the single biggest change in the internet’s short history. Smart phone and tablet users will make up more than half of your audience in the next couple years.

Having said that, optimizing your website pages for mobile is now an essential element in the web development process. Here’s a simple checklist that you can run through to ensure your site is ready for mobile browsers:

Size matters

Scalability is key. Can your site be viewed well on different sized screens? There are thousands of devices are out there, so selecting just a few screen sizes isn’t practical.

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Responsive Design

I think it was Bill Gates who said some years ago, “In the future there will be two kinds of companies. One with an effective website, and one with no business at all.”

Okay, so maybe it wasn’t Bill Gates, and maybe I totally paraphrased that “quote”. But you get the idea.

In web developer speak, a “Responsive design” is a website that is designed to change its layout, depending what device you view it on. In other words, it responds to its environment.

So, if you view a responsive website on a computer (laptop / PC) you’ll see it in its “normal” layout.

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