Everythingis susceptible to change. Web design is no exception. As we enter the New Year,the web design community and the online business community will be rocked withnew developments. All these developments, of course, will lead to morediversity and more convenient online transactions.
Everything issusceptible to change. Web design is no exception. As we enter the New Year,the web design community and the online business community will be rocked withnew developments. All these developments, of course, will lead to morediversity and more convenient online transactions. Website designers will haveto sit down and study the changes in the online business world for them toimprove their trade and be more competitive in their particular business realm.Copy-pasting and copycatting of designs will be the downfall of stubbornwebsite designers. Website critics will surely have a good year next year asmore and more website owners opt to renovate their websites to make them moreacclimatized to the current design trends. The website owners will be facedwith a tough issue whether to renovate the site or not. They will soon realizethat there is no such thing as no website owner left behind rule in theinternet and each website owner must use his own decision-making process tocome up with something brilliant and productive. Moreover, we also predict aproliferation offreewebsites as the idea of empowering the internet will indirectlypromote free websites and other free website making tools. Lets take a look atthree tools which will surely rock the website design community in the nextyear.
1) Progressive Enhancement Tools
According to Wikipedia.org, progressive enhancement is astrategy for web design that emphasizes accessibility, semantic HTML markup,and external style sheet and scripting technologies. It uses web technologiesin a layered fashion that allows everyone to access the basic content andfunctionality of a web page, using any browser or internet connection, whilealso providing those with better bandwidth, more advanced browser software ormore expensive experience an enhanced version of the page. At first,progressive enhancement was considered the separating veil between the free versionsand the premium versions. With the demand for better websites getting higherand higher these days, there is no doubt that progressive enhancement tools,whether purely for modification or for website building, will rock the websitedesign community. For the spectator or the online businessman, he should openlywelcome such opportunity to make a comeback or a name in the internet ecommercerealm.
2) Other Photoshop Tools from the Far East
The ecommerce hubs of the Far East like Japan and South Korea have nowintroduced their own blockbuster photo or image-editing devices. Whileobservers can point out the fact the Photoshop is the original, there is nodoubt that there is a photo-editing race going on and that companies based inthe Far East are catching up. In fact, the free versions or the public versionsare now readily downloadable online. Furthermore, the companies are now issuingEnglish-version of the programs in the internet. Well, 2012 is surely a yearfor the Photoshop enthusiast but he would surely find more enthusiasts in theWestern World and these enthusiasts are using the newer versions or the sisterversions of Photoshop created in the design studios of the Fat East.
3) Better Branding Tools
As the ecommerce world gets more branched and confusingly intertwined,the demand for branding tools or brand enhancement tools will get higher.According to the mainstay contributor at webdesignerdepot.com, the ecommerceworld is in the verge of something exciting. He noted the trend of webdesigners building brands and products simultaneously. In the early days of theecommerce boom, the new online businessmen did not pay much attention on thebrand. They ignored the effect of the brand on the mindset of the buyers. Ofcourse, most of these new online businessmen are young adults and lacking inexperience when it comes to branding. Now, there is an increasing attention onthe importance of brands and how can one use the branding tools online for hisnext website renovation.