what are the newest visual web design trends?
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There are also trends toward HTML5 and CSS3 possibilities. Many of these are honored now by the latest versions of Safari, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and (believe it or not) Internet Explorer. Again, webmasters must remember that not every website visitor has the latest and greatest browser, so the web page can be written with those new features, but must be written so that meaningful content appears even when those features cannot be seen!
Much web design work is also being done toward mobile devices. This is very difficult. A style sheet selector can be imbedded to restyle a web page for mobile devices, or the webmaster may have to finagle an altogether separate set of web pages for mobile web devices.
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In terms of the Web 2.0 phenomenon, specific trends aren't predictable; rather, they're set by discovering what works and repeating it. So, for instance, the notion of interleaved parallel lines of two similar colors is a very old visual "favorite" of humans, and it's no surprise that it became identified with other cliches, the collection of which was eventually dubbed Web 2.0 (and then people started the reverse, i.e. adding those stripes, etc. to get "Web 2.0 street cred" for their site).
So, you *could* be the one setting the trends simply by discovering a UI metaphor or visual dressing that is "original" (not in wide use) and visually pleasing, which perhaps replaces existing norms by being even simpler or better looking. As an example, it's common to have frames/borders around things -- what if you took away all hard framing, and just used different coloured backgrounds for overlapping visual objects?
Or, another example -- message boards are popular, but does *anyone* enjoy flipping through pages of posts? Why not just list all posts in a vertically scrolling "frame" (not a real HTML frame, but a DIV or something), and fetch upcoming results in an idle loop so people can stop with the bog-standard (and God-awful) "page by page" paradigm?
You get the idea, I hope. :-)
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