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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1. Fast Loading web site designs – this is the most important #1 tip which every website should have. You might design a web site that looks fabulous but only a very few visitors are going to see it if it takes a long time to load..!! your web designs should be properly optimized for the web and should not take more than 10 – 15 seconds to load completely. Remember that even though you might have a great design but only a very few people are going to see it if it takes long to load.
2. Clear Navigation – once a visitor has come to your web site you need them to click and go inside to view more pages and convert a goal. To do this you need to have a very clear and easy navigation. Make sure that all your important links are at very visible/prominent places. Most effective is the top right of the screen, this is where a visitor first looks at. Make use of menus on the right and left side of your design. Try to link many pages as possible. Let your important information be accessible from all parts of your website navigation. You may never know what a visitor may be interested in. try to use the footer area for important links.
3. All Resolutions – there are many computers using different kinds of resolutions. They range from 800 x 600 to 1440 x 900 and go even higher. Your target is to design your web site for all these resolutions much as possible. The best way to do this is to design your site in terms of percentage instead of pixels.
4. Browser Compatibility – make sure that your website is browser compatible. Your website should look the same in browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari & Google Chrome since they are widely used. Do not stop testing your design just because it looks great on Firefox. Usually IE gives problems and needs a few bug fixes specially when you are doing advanced HTML websites. But these problems are usually fixed easily once found.
5. Readable and professional looking fonts – we do not have to ask you, how many times you might have clicked out of a website because it used fonts like Comic Sans and the colour was bright green or pink..! just by looking at the font you know that the site is not professional. Do not use fonts like comic sans and any other similar fancy fonts which might not be available on most computers. If the font you chose is not available on the visitors computer then the website will use the default font of that computer which will look much worse and terrible. So try to use common and professional web standard fonts when designing your websites. The most popular fonts are Arial, Verdana & Calibri.
6. Minimize the use of images – Simple designs are the most effective for web. Keep your web site neat and simple. Do not clutter the pages with bulky images which might slow down the loading time. Visitors are more interested in content rather than design.
7. Use of white space – try not to clutter your design with too many images, big fonts and backgrounds. Keep it simple and minimize the use of images and keep a lot of white space which will make it more readable. White space will give your website a sense of spaciousness and overall tidiness.
8. Check for broken links – you should always cross check for broken links before updating your website to the web server. In Dreamweaver you can do a link check for broken links by right clicking any file in the site files window and clicking on check links for entire site. If you do not have this feature you need to upload your site and validate it with W3C Link Checker.

We hope these few web design tips were useful for you, if you want to design a professional website please feel free to contact us at extreme web design sri lanka. Tel 0094 112 5050939

If you are thinking that spending thousands of dollars on your brick and mortar store will take your business to the next level, then you might be missing a big trick..!! the modern online customers are flocking from retail outlets to online ecommerce stores and this is where you can improve your sales and get better profits. The latest ecommerce technologies will assist you to be more competitive and help you to increase sales by driving online traffic to your website resulting in a good ROI.

Ecommerce solutions in Sri Lanka is an emerging trend and most of the physical retail stores are migrating to online ecommerce stores where their customers can browse through the internet and purchase products of their choice from home at their convenience.  This has totally redefined business strategies and forced companies to rethink their existing strategies. With an ever increasing business volume being generated through the Internet, the companies are waking up to a new opportunity which is knocking on their doors in the form of online business. Of course they realize that the first and foremost step towards this journey is developing an exceptional website which offers a common platform to integrate various technologies at one place.

Ecommerce has added a fun element in shopping and tries to simulate the effects of real shopping. The introduction of innovative concepts like shopping carts adds in a unique element to online shopping and makes it appear very real. However, integrating so many capabilities within a website is an involved process and requires a detailed understanding of various processes. A professional and in depth knowledge is important to ensure that your website meets the expectations of your customers.

To get your website an extra edge over rest of the competitors in Sri Lanka, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services can also prove to be very effective. These services will ensure that your website ranks high on search engines which will provide higher volume of traffic. SEO services will make your website highly capable and take it to a higher level and take you to a broader international global market place.

Ecommerce offers various benefits over traditional mechanism which is helping it to grow in popularity. One of the most important benefits offered by ecommerce solutions is the reduced operational costs in terms of labor and paper work. It also allows you to reduce errors and achieve higher capabilities. Ecommerce solutions eliminate the need for spending huge amounts to set up brick and mortar infrastructure and just require you to develop an efficient website. Your website should be your most powerful point of communication for all your future business.

Extreme Web (Pvt) Ltd, provides you with end to end ecommerce solutions including web development, web designing, content management systems and offers various sophisticated software with a highly competent team to make sure that your website meets the expectations of your customers. You can visit us at www.extremewebdesigners.com for more information and feel free to contact us at 0094 112 5050 393 or 0094 7739 27028 for your Shopping Cart Website Development in Sri Lanka.

Why images can help you to get more visitors

Depending on your search query, Google displays several images along with the normal search results. For example, if you performed a search for the term “Graphic Design”, Google will display the search results of your query as shown below:

The images can be found either at the top or in between other search results, and they will be linked to their respective web pages. For examples, if you were to click on one of those images, you will be taken to the web page which shows that particular image.

How to optimize your images so that they can be found

If you are maintaining a website about graphic designing, wouldn’t it be great if an image from your website was listed on top of the normal search results? Your website will attract more visitors, whilst increasing the popularity of your site.

There are a few steps you can take to improve the position of your images in Google Image Search:

1. Give your image a file name that contains the keywords for which you want it to be found. For this example we will name the image as graphic-design.jpg, separating the words with a hyphen.

2. Give an Image Alt Attribute text which is descriptive. You can use the same keywords that you used for the image file name here. Hence, the Image Alt Attribute would be “Graphic Design”

<img src=“graphic-design.jpg” alt=“Graphic Design”>

3. You should use the Image Title Attribute in the same way too:

<img src=“graphic-design.jpg” alt=“Graphic Design” title=“Grpahic Design”>

4. Larger images have a higher probability of featuring more often on Google’s first results page. The larger your image is, the easier it becomes to get to the top of Google’s normal results page. Make sure to include the Width and Height attributes in your image tag to show search engines the size of your image:

<img src=“graphic-design.jpg” alt=“Graphic Design” title=“Graphic Design” width=“700” height=“500”>

5. Textual content before and after the image which appears in your web page is also an important factor that impacts the position of your image in Google’s Image Search. Therefore, the text “Graphic Design” should appear close to the image in that particular web page.

6. Ensure to optimize the rest of your web page for the chosen search term. If you optimize the complete web page for that certain keyword, it would be easier to get a good listing for images which are on that page.

7. Lastly, make sure that the image you optimized for your keyword also looks attractive.  It would be pointless if no-one is interested to click on the image, even though your image can be found on Google’s first result page.

Google has indexed over a billion of images. If your image can be found for the right keyword, then this will help you get targeted visitors to your website. So, if you want your images optimized and attract more visitors to your website, then look no further because we at ExtremeWeb can help you achieve that.

Our professional graphic designers have the eye to produce well structured and creative designs that will best suite your needs. So please do not hesitate to contact us on ++94115050939 or simply fill out the contact form and we will get back to you as soon as we can.