Web Design, Before and After.
As I know, the web design started from what we called the HTML coding, which allows us to design website with rich contents, such as images, videos and hyperlinks. With the advent of high speed Internet and advanced technology, web site design became a common thing for general Internet and computer users. The one obvious phenomenon was that bloggers started modifying their blog by either using HTML, XHTML coding or some other third-party easy-to-use software. Adobe’s Dreamweaver is widely used due to its visual design concept, which allows us to design website visually instead of writing codes. But not everyone is a artist when designing website, or we simply don’t have enough time to spend on learning how to design.
Moreover, website is one of the most important things for companies that whether they do ecomerce or not, because a website is more likely to be a face of a company, and it presents viewers a big picture of what this company does and what image it creates. For my point of view, I like website that is simple, creative, and with less words on it, because I feel relaxed while I am browsing this kind of site, and I tend to spend more time on it even though there’s not much things to read. This brings us a question: What is a good web design?
When I was surfing Internet few days ago, one company really got my attention, the “nclub” web design agency, and I started looking for the information about this company besides its official site. During a interview, the Co-Founder and Senior Consultant of nclub, Martin Ringlein, described that the web design should bring information architecture, accessibility, usability, user-experience design and development together to truly define nowadays web design. nclub’s work also brings marketing integration into its design, which means it extended its service from a traditional web design service to a new level. As Martin said that they helps small communities to promote events. But nclub doesn’t do this to advertise itself; instead, it sponsors to help and appreciated if it got noticed.
Me and my friends was once trying to start a small online business by selling jewels on Vancouver Island. When it came to the web design, we got frustrated due to the lack of knowledge and online marketing experience. There are too many things to consider, from the initial goal, ideas, and planning to the actual web design process or hiring a company to help us. And finally we gave up, it’s just too costly to do so. Moreover, there are too many wed design companies out there on the web, and we have no idea which one o pick, because they all seemed so professional about what they do to live. This made me think a lot, such as what would the future of web design would look like few years from now.
Content Management Systemhelps both web developers and their clients to get updates, and this enables both of them to communicate easily when problems arise or new technology is being introduced, so web designers can help their clients to update their website or fix issues premotely. A “old news” predicted CMS would be used by many companies.
Finally, Web 3.0 is coming too, and it would bring us more exciting improvement, and it would make our online experience more relax and bring us more freedom. Web 3.0 Features
