Technology, Trend and website design
When we either talk about technology or trend, both have a strong impact on web designing. And similarly web designing is the process of making websites with good design which is affected by both factors mentioned above. Professional web design firms when do web designing they consider the latest web trends and technology factors in order to compete with the market.
Differences between Trend and Technology
- Trend and technology are two different words but they have a strong relation among them
- Trends is based on techniques, theories or concept that need to be implemented
- Technology is always based on the implementation or practices of those related to trends.
- Trend is independent factor whereas technology is dependent on the trend. When the trend changes it affect the technology to be changed.
Example of Trend and Technology
- Web 2.0 is the trend and technologies related to web 2.0 are blogs, forums, social network websites, Wiki, RSS, XML, XHTML, web services that are considered to be the implementation of web trends.
- Another web trend which is not implemented yet is web 3.0 or semantic web. It is based on the two important concepts one is personalization and other is semantic. When this trend will be successful with respect to time and implemented the relevant technologies will come into the market.
Impact of trend & technology to the website design
Website design has the relation with the technologies and trends. To explain this statement, please consider the following example:
- Web 1.0 to web 2.0 the website design has been changed with the great difference. Whole structure of the website changed.
- The Structure of the website is based on the following
- Header
- Logo
- Navigation panel
- Body
- Footer
- So now web 2.0 has changed the complete structure of the website design.
- Ajax is the technology that might have relation with the theories of the web trend but it affects the website design. Interactivity has been increased by using the AJAX on website design.
So as a web designer or any web design firm, it Is obvious to change yourself as with the change occurs in technology or trend.