Friday, April 15, 2011

Web Design Has Had To Change Through The Years

By John Barnes


When the internet was just starting to be formed, the early surfers were greeted by web pages that effectively replicated the look of a simple text document. Much like a standard business letter or report. In time, as the internet grew in popularity and reach, website development took on additional facets and web design became a much more important part of the online experience.

At the end of the 1990s, web design had reached a point of giving people a much more interesting looking website. It would make far better use of fonts, colors and text effects. However, the most common sort of website still had a very simple, layout, and the new company website would look very similar to their corporate brochure.

Of course, over the last decade or so there has been a massive increase in internet business, activity and importance in the lives of individuals and companies. As a result, websites have once again taken on many new facets and have become much more varied and sophisticated at the same time. Website marketing and competition have pushed website development to new levels to attract web visitors, and to keep them engaged while exploring the sites.

As with society as a whole, Internet users have become very impatient and need to find what they are looking for instantly. This has given Webmasters a different challenge when it comes to designing websites. Users are not as much concerned with seeing incredible graphics. They want to have a web page load extremely quickly, so that they can find the information they are looking for.

This has meant that even if the graphics on the site have cost either a lot of money or time to develop, they are not being seen. These days a surfer does not want to be kept waiting. If they feel that the page is either not loading, or taking too long to load, they will go somewhere else, hoping to find a website that loads faster.

Some of the best and effective websites for the needs and interests of internet users today, are those that stick to very simple and clean layouts. These allow the surfers to easily find and read the web content they hunger for. Many in the industry consider the best web designers to be those who can carry off great website development by artfully drawing the visitor into the site, and simply allowing the design and layout to enhance and accentuate the web content.




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