Web 2.0 The Style

What is Web 2.0? --by Lynn Chang

In a nutshell, Web 2.0 is where the Web becomes the intersection between people and applications. Web 2.0 services are, in essence, online applications that help you share information and accomplish certain tasks, the way that desktop applications did traditionally—storing and sharing media (Flickr, Yahoo! Video), disseminating information, (WordPress, Typepad, del.icio.us), promoting real-world events (Upcoming.org), etc.

Web 2.0 services are not only changing how we do things, they’re changing the style of the Internet and of the web sites that we encounter. In the Web 2.0 world, the old rules of desktop-based software, which often required 3,000-page manuals to understand, don’t apply. With Web 2.0, simplicity is the key.

Whether your site is a an earth-shaking Web 2.0 app or a site simply designed to help bloggers add bling to their blogs, the following lessons can help make your experience more intuitive and your site more popular, helping to keep users coming back.


The Web 2.0 Style
Web 2.0, as a design style, can make your web site look updated, eye-catching and modern. While there are no official standards for what makes a web site “Web 2.0,” there are certainly a few common characteristics. Web 2.0 design uses larger, bolder fonts and greater contrasts in color for easy user comprehension and navigation. The Web 2.0 style is intended to make completing any task seem easy.

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