What developed in web development : the transition from 2011 to 2012
Web development saw, or rather is seeing, quite a few important milestones in 2011. There was flash going backstage, more simplicity setting in, creativity and content covering a center stage than ever before, website viewership getting diversified by the advent of mobile viewing platforms like mobile phones, smart phones, iPhones etc. and the advent of individualistic extensions like .me instead of .com.
As we approach towards the end of 2011, the competition between websites to increase their visibility grows even more interesting, thereby earmarking a perfect occasion for evaluation of which way the trends flowed in 2011. In addition, more importantly, it is an occasion of estimating which way is it going to take in 2012. Here are a few important points that might help you redesign or design your website accordingly in the coming year, bringing in more traffic than you are hitherto receiving.
- Great content: Attaining the crucial balance between keyword mapping in the content and not letting the content appear ‘stuffed’ has been a prime development of 2011. As more creativity set in the content writing arena, web content all over the world underwent a silent revolution in terms of being precise, informative and to the point. The trend that really drove 2011 web development was the development of websites that provide valuable information regarding the subject matter of the website.
Search engines nowadays give more importance to value content as the competition between leading search engines like Google and Bing proliferates. Of course, along with content quality, proper keyword mapping has been an important factor of website development, as search engines try even faster to bring in relevant content to the visitor.
- New technology: Flash has been begun to be replaced by CSS3 and HTML5.although HTML5 cannot really replace the extraordinary design elements achievable through Flash, yet the use of the new technology has already begun as a natural trend of getting the websites more technically correct. If you have not started using the new technologies, it is time you begin exploring these new vistas of website development.
- Emergence of mobile web viewership platforms: 2011 saw big-time mobile web viewership emergence. The web is not limited to desktops of laptops any more, it found new boundaries for itself as smartphones , iphones and netbook viewership. The new mobile web viewer is even more impatient and really appreciates if the website is mobile ready. A great example of websites maintaining the popularity index through mobile viewership is facebook, which has apps that instantly maps the location of a mobile facebook user through the mobile connection. The new web design is being comprised of a web design designed for the touch screen and not mice. The development of features like horizontal scrolling is a testimony of the impact the mobile devices have had on web development in 2011.
Emergence of new domain names: The.com or .org is just going obsolete, like a sold-out offer. New websites with precise extensions like .me and .us are appearing steadily but surely in the web development scenario. For instance, here is a .me website at http://www.domain.me/.
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