This quote becomes very contradictory in its own way when it comes to the web design world. New trends hold a lot of importance when it comes to making new structures, layouts, designs and even for a single graphic to a website.

Technology changes every day with each click of the mouse. Every day at every single click a brand new trend or new technology emerges which changes web design trends. It undergoes a continuous and a very fast speed.

The web world of designs is going more humane, aesthetic, and functional in appeal. As the web industry is fickle, more and more designs trends are on their full pace. Sole web presence doesn’t really work. Incorporation of interactive and attractive designs in a website was, is and will always remain important and thus won’t hamper the new emerging trends.

The best way to communicate any idea in the world of web design is a good and a subtle straight-forward design. And it acts as an icing on the cake, when a website is launched with a creative and unique layouts. It does not stop at having a great content, the entire layout and how it has been structured, decides its readability and influence on the reader.

More and more effort is being put to take inspiration from the print world, which is accompanied by headlines, quotations, multi-column text, highlighted quotations, and indented text, supporting imagery, side notes and footnotes.

Print material ought to have a high impact on the readers keeping in mind that it should not dominate the informative part that is, the content of the website. We have tried and made an attempt to incorporate all the latest trends in web designs in the year 2010 with from especially print sources in this gleaming world of creativity.

Nature and Size of Font:
— Serif and Sans-serif: These fonts have proved themselves very apt for body texts because they are more visible and easier to read even while browsing at high resolutions.
— Big bold headings: These ought to grab readers’ attention as they are distinctly visible.
— Scrolling limit: As the web page is not bound by the constraint of a particular dimension as it happens in print. Nevertheless, a web designer has an option of the horizontal scroll bar, which is actually quite a big ‘No’ if we look it from the visitor’s point of view.
As it has already been mentioned in the starting that the new trend is inspired from the print world, and therefore, a strong grid system provides an organized structure to the web page where the designer can actually fit in the content removing all the inessentials.

JavaScript:
With the advent of the higher resolutions, and the ability to show any JavaScript, it has become much easier to avail the white space that is actually critical to the reader because it ensures proximity and a space to rest.

Info-graphics and multi-column Layouts:

• Info-graphics: As the name suggests, have always remained a help in delivering the complex relationships and rations and even statistics in a more simple and effective way.
• Multi-Column Layouts: As the world of information is increasing, and Internet is becoming the hub to put in the vast resource of knowledge, multi-column layouts are becoming more and more popular.

Go for CSS3
Gone are those days when we could only animate with GIF image files and then, flash. Today, we are loaded with Flash, Silverlight, GIF, JavaScript, and even CSS3 and now, CSS4, and CSS5 as well. Rounded corners, borders, backgrounds, text and box shadows are some of the advantages, which can be made use of— usable on the old browsers as well as on the new technologies with enhanced features. The basic advantages that you tend to grab hold of CSS3 are—

• Rounded Corners: With the use of CSS3, it saves the effort of the user of generating rounded corners by directly creating them in the browser. The rounded corners, which were once stimulated with CSS, JavaScript hacks and image files, became much more efficient without taking the pain to download additional files.
• Adding shadows is now possible: CSS3 offers some of the most creative effects to create shadows, be it— drop shadows to the inner shadows, embossed and imprinted effects, with no effect on the loading time.
• Mobile-friendly versions: With the use of mobiles and the rapid growth of mobile web, companies prefer to go for user-friendly mobile versions of their websites and spend heavily.

Other Techniques:

• Add Crisp Illustrations: With the new trends, it’s time to learn creating those smooth, clean, crisp illustrations that are marked distinctive and professionally illustrated designs.
• Micro-Textures: With the introduction of ‘micro-textures’, we are able to create subtle, barely noticeable textures in the background.

The use of watercolors and handwritten and script fonts ensures a subtle, distinct, calming, and well-crafted and planned way to communicate your ideas.

Social media — it is working as an explosive in the sudden growth of sharing and communicating your ideas, creativity and connecting you to the millions of people out there. Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, and many other social networking sites are the new ever-growing trends in the field of web designs. And being the need of the hour, designers are looking forward to the but, innovating techniques of creating a connection with the visitors through these social hubs.

“Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present” By Scott Cook

But of course, these trends have been, in one way or the other, inspired by the current trends and we, purely feel that web designing industry is subjected to changes at almost each and every hour. Contact us at extreme web design sri lanka if you need your web site to be modified, redesigned or build a new website. contact us  at  +94115050939.

What is HTML5?

HTML5 is HTML’s latest major revision,which has a whole load of new cool features and exciting attributes.

For most of the HTML coders the understanding of these new cool features might be overwhelming and at first it might look unnecessary, but when you dig in deeper into a new and exciting list of features will open up, not for just HTML web developers and web designers but for web users as well..!

Below is a publication by Focus.com which is a infographic designed for the uninitiated to get a better understanding of HTML5 and to be a quick reference for web developers, you can view the infographic below (click the image for the source and to view it full-size).

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“Our old index had several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would update every couple of weeks. To refresh a layer of the old index, we would analyze the entire web, which meant there was a significant delay between when we found a page and made it available to you. With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index,” explains Google.

Because Google indexes are updated in real time, you will find new information much faster, may be in even a few seconds once it is posted..! Matt Cutts says that you’ll sometimes find web pages that weren’t indexed when you started typing your query. This is really incredible, even though it’s still very difficult to rank recent web pages.

If you want to find most recent web pages, click on “Past 24 Hours” or “Past Week” in Google Search right side menu (the screenshot shows Google’s old interface). You can even sort the results by date.

Why Yahoo appeals to the 50+ demographic:

• Yahoo is a old fashioned portal which is a gateway to all kind of different content on the internet.
• As a home page it has a good set up in advance for its users and do not require or push for customization.
• People who are over 50 years were “leading edge” internet users about 10 – 15 years ago set up a yahoo email account when Yahoo was THE dominant search engine at that time and they still use that same account today.
• In a research carried out by  Cowan & Co, revealed that 57% of respondents were visiting Yahoo home page because they go there to check their Yahoo mail. Yahoo’s engagement with users remains high; 64% of respondents go to Yahoo.com at least once per week. In addition, Yahoo Mail is still growing (although Gmail has a much greater share of new personal email accounts).
• People over 60 are more often using the Internet for community and entertainment they aren’t using the web to “search” for data and information to support their career.

Google: a dominant “search” engine and online toolbox

• Google is the dominant search engine which is taking over the market share with over 67.3% in December 2009 across all demographics.
• Google gives its primary focus on “search” finding the information and data people look for, most often for research, work or career development.
• Google has loads of customizable tools such as iGoogle, Google Docs, Gmail, Google Reader, Google Maps etc.
• In the same research by Cowan & Co cited above, they found that “79% of 22- to 25-year-olds use Google as their primary search engine, compared to 63% of total respondents. Google usage is skewed toward younger demographics, high-income households, users with college and graduate degrees, and mobile Internet users.”

Bing: uncertain waters yet strong possibilities for the 50+ demographic

• According to the Cowan & Co study, Bing was chosen as a primary search engine by just 1% of 18- to 25-year-olds and 4% of 26- to 34-year-olds. Bing’s highest penetration rate is in the 55-and-over demographic at 10%.
• About 40% of respondents are not aware of the Bing brand. They are simply finding the tool because it is the default search engine in Internet Explorer which as of December 2009 is still the browser of choice (or default) of 50% of Internet surfers. Older users are much more likely to stick with the default browser than to seek out alternative software.
• Even after the huge media-blitz by Microsoft to promote Bing (spending perhaps as much as $100 million), its market share dropped in December 2009 to 9.9% from a high of 10.7% the previous month.

The question is, even if Yahoo and Bing have a smaller piece of the pie, if their user base matches your customer base, you’ll want to make sure you have a presence in their text and image indexes, directories, and perhaps even paid search. There are specific tactics you will need to take to accomplish this. Extreme web search engine consultants Sri Lanka are ready to offer you the guidance and coaching you need – just get in touch!

Why is it important that Google can deal with synonyms?
Google targets to show the finest results for your search. To achieve this it’s very important that Google’s algorithms can understand the search keywords which you may use in the search query. One important factor of recognizing the words is to understand synonyms.

These are words which can have the same meaning, Example: “home” and “house”. People who are searching for “home improvement” might also be interested in websites which contains the keyword “house improvement”
But the issue is that some words can have many meanings. For example, “case” could mean “box” , “container” or it can mean “instance” , “occurrence” or example.

Google’s measurements show that synonyms affect 70 percent of user searches across the more than 100 languages Google supports.

What has changed?

According to the posting in Google’s official blog, Google has improved the way that they detect synonyms. For example, the algorithm can now find 20 possible meanings of the search term “GM”. GM can mean General Motors, George Mason in [gm university], gamemaster in [gm screen star wars], Gangadhar Meher in [gm college], general manager in [nba gm] and even gunners mate in [navy gm], etc.

Google also made a change to how the synonyms are displayed. The searched words and the synonyms are now displayed in bold in the search results. Web pages that contain only synonyms of the searched word can also be displayed in the search results.

Do you have to change your web pages?
If you have optimized your website as explained by our search engine optimization consultants and as explained then you don’t have to change anything. Here’s a reminder:

1. Think out of the box.
Don’t just use the technical terms that you use in your company. Think about the words that other people would use to describe your product. For example, don’t just use “rhinoplasty” but also “nose job” and “nose surgery”.
Our search engine consultants will help you to find the best keywords for your website.

2. Optimize different pages of your website for different keywords.
The more pages you optimize, the better. It is much better if one web page is highly relevant to one keyphrase than somewhat relevant to many keyphrases.

Don’t stuff a single page with keywords. The keywords should fit naturally in your web page content. Our consultants will help to find out where on your web pages you should use your keywords.

Different people use different words to find the same things. Use different ways to talk about your website topic and optimize as many pages as possible of your website.

There are various resources and tools to help you find what people are currently searching, buying, and doing. You can use these methods for not only improving your site so that it comes up better in searches if you optimize your website for targeted keywords, but you can also use it to come up with the most searched for topics, thus increasing the potential traffic to your website.

Using Google Trends

With Google Trends, you can find the latest searches for each day. For each search term you enter, Google Trends will analyze a portion of Google web searches for that particular term you entered, relative to the total number of searches performed on Google over a period of time. It then shows you a graph with the results (known as the Search-Volume graph).

Top cities, regions, and languages in which people performed searches for that search term you entered can also be found just below the Search-Volume graph.

Hot Trends; another feature of Google Trends shows the most current search terms which people search for on Google today. Instead of showing the overall most popular search terms, Hot Trends displays searches that have suddenly grown in popularity.

Related search terms, a Search-Volume graph, and a list of top cities will be shown for each search. News, blogs, and various web results will also be displayed to help you understand as to the reasons for a search to appear on the Hot Trends list today. While Hot Trends is updated on an hourly basis, you can also make use of it to see what the Hot Trends were for a particular date in the past.

Type a query into Google.com from either an Android device or the iPhone and Google will now spit out results based on your current or previously logged location. Search “muse” as Google did in its side-by-side screenshots above and you’ll see the most-often-sought terms in your area.

Hence, it isn’t exactly that Google has made its search suggestions any better at anticipating your intended query. More accurately, Google is relying on the hive mind to contextualize location-based searches.

Based on Google’s test, localized search suggestions will work best for businesses. To make sure you get the full impact, go into the Google.com home page settings from your mobile browser and turn on “save recent locations” and “allow use of device location.”

Traditionally, and most often, WordPress is used as the foundation on which to build, and publish a blog to display to the world. Some of the most infamous blogs on the planet use WordPress to convey their message, such as The New York Times and CNN.

It allows you to easily create a complex blog, or web log, on your site and offers administrative tools along with sophisticated design features that make it easy to develop and integrate a personal or professional blog on your site. Members can customize their page with the use of themes and latest features, making it modern and individual.

Having a blog can prove beneficial to business, as you are consistently providing fresh content for potential customers to find in search engines. It also demonstrates that your company is passionate about what it does and reassures visitors that real people are backing the business. Publishing thoughts in a blog and will not only help to earn a business customers but give it a competitive edge in it’s your industry of expertise.

WordPress is also used to formulate websites. This is an extremely useful tool for small businesses to exploit. It has received a lot of acclamation for this application because once your site is created you have the ability to edit, add, subtract, and anything else you need to the content, without any knowledge of HTML.

The main reason for the notoriety of WordPress appears to be its simplicity. It is rated as extremely easy to use and members have stated that: ‘if you know how to use MS Word, then you’ll be able to use WordPress. So there’s no better time to start a blog than now.

If you wish to have your own wordpress blogging website, please do not hesitate to contact us on ++94115050939 or simply fill out the contact form and we will get back to you shortly.

The Nexus One is priced at $529 when purchased directly from Google, or $179 from T-Mobile with a two-year contract. The Nexus One phone was designed by phone maker HTC under Google’s strict supervision. A few specs of the latest “Superphone” include:

• Android 2.1 operating system
• 3.7-inch display
• 1GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm (very fast)
• 480 x 800 OLED display (for brilliant colors and deep contrast)
• 5-megapixel camera with LED flash
• Audio stereo Bluetooth
• Active noise cancellation using two microphones
• Live-action wallpaper that responds to your touch
• Google Maps navigation
• Improved Facebook integration