Web 2.0 - Are you in yet?

[TheAnand]

I am hearing a lot about Web 2.0 these days, how many of us here are into the new age design trends? which resources do you use?

www.theanand.com is my contribution to the web 2.0....a big banner, a tag cloud, simple and bright...

wht do you think about the new Web 2.0 fuss

[Ferreira]

I really like the "Web 2.0" feel, the glossy clean look, makes a template look very professional we used correctly. I usually use that style when i enter contests, contest holders like when templates look professional:D, but when i design templates for fun, i dont use that style because most of my templates are clan/gaming templates(they have a dark feel).

[Joshimitsu]

TheAnand, you seem to have web 2.0 totally mixed up. It's not just about design, the main factors are about accessibility, seo and loading.
Design is just a small aspect.

Your code is not valid HTML 4.0 Transitional, there is 66 errors in the code to be exact.
It is coded in tables, which shows me that it's definately not web 2.0. By this day and age, it should be a tableless layout.

Sorry to be harsh, but i think you need to learn more about what web 2.0 is.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theanand.com%2F

[smartminds]

web2.0 is majorly a termonology , its used to describe the onme interactive features of the interenent , where there days there is a lot of participation of ppl into it kindof the blogs forums ect.......

[Lucid_Seeker]

call me an absolute n00b but what is Web2.0? Sorry i've heard of it for sure but not sure to what it actually is

[Swordude]

Yeah seriously, what exactly is Web 2.0?

[XTraze]

The second generations of the Internet.
But people think many things building up themselves, as far as I know, we do not have any WEB 2.0 websites yet as we are young webmasters. WEB 2.0 is NOT supposed to be :
the glossy logo.
tag clouds.
pro websites.
some AJAX.

If you want examples for web 2.0 here you go
Flickr
Google Adsense
Wikipedia
etc etc

WEB 2.0 is an Internet based revolution where people (almost) stopped using what they were using before. Simply, New, unique and different web applications which made great success on the Internet.

[AstaProxy]

The second generations of the Internet.
But people think many things building up themselves, as far as I know, we do not have any WEB 2.0 websites yet as we are young webmasters. WEB 2.0 is NOT supposed to be :
the glossy logo.
tag clouds.
pro websites.
some AJAX.

If you want examples for web 2.0 here you go
Flickr
Google Adsense
Wikipedia
etc etc

WEB 2.0 is an Internet based revolution where people (almost) stopped using what they were using before. Simply, New, unique and different web applications which made great success on the Internet.

Web 2.0 is really the "now" thing on the internet, Use of big fonts, ajax, tag clouds & so on... they aall combine & make the navigation so easy & effortless... I really the Web 2.0 Concept.

[jazzer01]

Web 2.0 really isn't anything - some of the things that are classed as Web2.0 have been round for years! Its just like AJAX, google started doing clever things with XMLHttpRequest and the like years ago, its just only recently that a term was coined for it!

[mullerrwd]

* Web 2.0 is about data abstraction. All those Web 2.0 functions people love to talk about, such as tagging, sharing, XML, open APIs (define), and mashups, only became possible because we now understand how to free information from containers. Though the Web credo "information wants to be free" has been around for a while, we've only recently been able to make it happen. Pulling information out of proprietary containers allows you to do pretty much whatever you want with it, whether driving collaborative sites, interfacing with mobile devices, or something else.

* Web 2.0 takes broadband and Moore's Law for granted. Sites like YouTube and Google Docs & Spreadsheets wouldn't be possible in a non-broadband world populated by powerful computers. All Web 2.0's multimedia features, especially video, start with the assumption bandwidth is basically free and readily accessible.

* Web 2.0 is about connections. Connections between people, between sites, between the Web and mobile worlds, between buyers and sellers. Web 2.0 includes all of them. At its heart, the new Web is about moving from a one-to-many publishing model to a many-to-many one.

* The Web 2.0 revolution puts people first. All the tagging, social content, social networking, blogging, and virtual communities people point to as examples of Web 2.0 come out of this. It's perhaps the most widely recognized aspect of what's changing. But putting people first is more than just connecting them or allowing them to post content. It's also understanding people use the Web. The needs of the user (not the programmer, marketing director, or information architect) come first.

* Web 2.0 is about allowing people to manipulate data, not just retrieve data. The AJAX revolution isn't that it lets you make zippy interfaces that kind of look like real desktop applications in a browser. It's that it does away with the old Web 1.0 model of request page/get page/view page technology all of us were used to. Contrast the old MapQuest "point and zoom and pan with buttons" interface with the revolutionary interface Google Maps deploys. All of a sudden, we're actually in there with the data, moving it around, playing with it, and interacting with it in real time.

* Web 2.0 is about doing stuff on the Web that can't done in any other medium. Functionalities that have generated so much Web 2.0 hype are all things that wouldn't be possible without the Internet. Period. Much of Web 1.0 tried to shoehorn old media models into the new technology, often with bad or even disastrous results. All the bad thinking of the past decade or so revolved around the misperception that the Web is "like medium X, only different." The Web isn't TV with clicking. It isn't print with the ability to link and embed multimedia content. Podcasting isn't radio you can download.

To be short:
Web 2.0, is tableless, so it uses css(internal or external), Why tableless you think, it is easier right? Yes, but like allot of people don't know google doesn't index a tabled webdesign, it can't follow it.
making your design errorless is one 2, and poeple should retrieve and edit data(I dont like that idea, makes me think of wikipedia wich is a good website but there are always ass**** who think hey are funny by posting something stupid).
I like the idee, but not that sharing section, if I share my whole website so everyone can copy it,then whats the use of the © mark in the footer? I am happy when a regular page of mine is loaded in 0.027640 sec and is tableless so google can index it better. Then I will call it mullerweb 2.0.
And still don't really get.
But their are webdesigner/coders who do it wrong: some think that web 2.0 is the glossy look and valid markup(xhtml , css) and others think it is used as platform Rich Internet application techniques, optionally Ajax-based. But what i do understand is that it's a mix of both.

[Magnus]

One thing that is NOT web 2.0 is Internet Explorer. It still uses the same layout engine as in 1997. Woah, that's old.

[glyc]

Web 2,0 is style of design use some kind of pastel colours, light colours, U must avoid contrasting colours, just look at my last work:
link (http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/entryscreenshot.php?contestid=1599&entryid=88651)

[sedes]

Glyc, right main rules is sheme of colours, U forget say something about coding ;) it's XHTML & CSS ;)

[armatik]

I think that Web 2.0 not only means the advance from HTML to XHTML and CSS, but also the increased use of XML, as well as new programming languages like PHP and Ruby on Rails over old CGI. Even Microsoft has had their share, with the upgrade of ASP and really all of their programming languages with the introduction of the .NET framework and C#, J#, and VB.NET.

Design is also something though, I'm not a designer, but I have been noticing some recent trends with light blends of colours and the whole glossy/smooth look. Whatever it is though, I'm definitely liking it.

[darsh39]

At first i was really confused as to what is is this WEB2.0
but seems like all u guys have done a pretty good job to get the concept into ma mind....!!!! :P

[pateldesign]

Web 2.0 is basically the new style of the web. Just go to http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm to see all the web 2.0 styles. You have simplicity, a central layout, icons, etc...

[TeenZine]

I agree i website should be nice and simple and yet look good. The web 2.0 is not overrated in my oppion its underrated.

[Rosscheal]

I feel that web2.0 will become very popular in 2007 onwards there is alot on new clean websites out there

[narmad]

One thing that is NOT web 2.0 is Internet Explorer. It still uses the same layout engine as in 1997. Woah, that's old.

Lol ...truly said, M$ Internet Explores SUCKS. The irony is that still majority of the users are using it and we have to code for, it too. One who bears the brunt are webdesigners and web developers. IE has more bugs than in amazon jungle.

Some day it will be all good, I hope.

Regards,

Samyak

[narmad]

Yeah seriously, what exactly is Web 2.0?


Hi ,

Web2.0 is a term coined by Tim O'Rielly. Do look at this article (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html) to read more about Web2.0 and how it differ from traditional way. To sum up this is the comparison taken from that article only ( if you are in hurry ).
Web 1.0 --> Web 2.0
DoubleClick --> Google AdSense
Ofoto --> Flickr
Akamai --> BitTorrent
mp3.com --> Napster
Britannica Online --> Wikipedia
personal websites --> blogging
evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation --> search engine optimization
page views --> cost per click
screen scraping --> web services
publishing --> participation
CMS --> wikis
directories (taxonomy) --> tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness --> syndication

I hope it throws some lite and clears up.

Regards,
Narmad

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