Will the Apps Kill Websites and Web Designers?

Web Application

Are websites still relevant or rather are these the end times for freelancer web design experts? It has already been proclaimed that browsers are going to die out soon, unless they evolve to something totally different from its present state. And all this doesn’t augur well for the websites and freelancers handling web site design projects. With the arrival of smarter smart phones and tablets, the attention has shifted towards dedicated apps. We’ve got apps for emails, social networking (facebook and twitter apps), news apps, also music, movies and gaming apps. We will soon be spending more time on the internet but none on the web!

So does this mean that it’s time we switch off the websites? The answer is – No..not yet. But brace yourself for the day when it will be all about creating single digital experience for the user. Companies will have to re-think their strategy and align it with their social media efforts or else they’ll be App’ed!

Web Designing Without Content – An Empty Vessel

Web Site Design Projects

Almost from the moment I received web content to rescript a few weeks back, I knew I didn’t enjoy it. Now, before you jump to the conclusion that I revise content without reading it, let me shed some light on the fact that it wasn’t the content that I was referring to but the actual state of the website & its design. It was sad to see that web site design projects these days have a sole intention of making an initial ‘shock & awe’ styled impact upon its visitors. Nobody cares about the content & other related elements that have the power to make the visitor come back to the site again. And it’s only when we see web content, thoughtlessly relegated to the secondary status that heckles rise. I sometimes wish that people, who ignore content or write cheap & shoddy material, must have a place set-aside in some part of the infernal region. People must remember that words are sacred & everything else that you find on a web site is a vessel that contains them, and a website with improper content is like an empty vessel making a lot of needless noise.

Future of Web – HTML 5

HTML 5

The writing is on the wall: HTML 5 is the future. Soon after Apple embraced HTML 5 specifications & disallowed any FLASH based applications on its highly successful Iphone and Ipad, the industry analysts have started predicting checkmate for FLASH because HTML 5 has the potential to rival the multimedia capabilities of proprietary plug-in software’s like FLASH & Silverlight. It will also allow web site design projects to have structured pages and will give more power to the browser to carry out functions like video playback and drag and drop.

HTML 5 is being touted as the next generation mark up language with several new features. It will soon be knocking at your doorstep. Find as much as you can about it before your competitor does and uses it to design future websites.

Lack of Motivation-Is There a Cure?

Online Web Design

I woke up to a hot and humid morning with the temperatures in the high 40’s. I had planned to start working on my online web designing projects but now I wasn’t so sure. I like working out everyday and given my busy schedule, it was a now or never situation. But did I want to get all sweaty in the heat? No! Did I want to start working? No!

I think I lacked motivation or was I just being lazy!??!

I finish at least some part of my daily web site design projects in a week. It sure takes some discipline but for me the hardest part of my day is – sitting down to start working on a project. This is where I think I need to sort things out. There are just too many things on the web, in my office or even the people around me that manage to distract me from starting – starting anything for that matter. In my opinion, this is one reason why some of the more successful people followed daily routines, as it allowed them to do more without wasting their precious time. It also allowed them to have a steady flow of thoughts. I think things will only change once I stop giving in to my temptations, especially during the times when I’m most vulnerable. But how do I do that, any suggestions?

Difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

Web

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, which is the dominant factor in internet society today. The design world has moved from web 1.0 to web 2.0, years in the past. But these web versions are not easy to define! So read on as I try to demystify the difference between the two.

Internet today is more dynamic and content is generated by the user. Web 1.0 was all about consuming and the web site design projects tackled were mostly meant for reading. Web2.0 is about participation. The visitors take part by commenting, submitting new posts & by rating posts. Hence we can see that it’s the dynamic nature of the web version 2.0 that differentiates it from the version 1.0. Web 1.0 still exists somewhere on the World Wide Web but web 2.0 dominates it completely. But before we celebrate and settle down into thinking that we know it all..Let me warn you..Pretty soon you’ll be discussing the differences between web2.0 and web 3.0. More confusion you think! Well, watch out this space!