Everything about today's web designing is Web 2.0. You might probably have already heard about the term, but what does it really mean when you say Web 2.0-ish web design.
As a starter, Web 2.0 refers to the technology and the advancement of scripts used in today's websites. What was seen as impossible or impractical ten years ago in web designing is now achievable in Web 2.0. For example, before it was impossible to float a flash graphic on top of a web page. Now, it is possible.
Web 2.0-ish design has also paved the way for more functional web design. Ten years, web designs are heavy and fanciful. I can remember those days when graphic and web designers are just so fond of using bevel and shadows.
Web 2.0 web design is no longer about bevels and shadows, although sometimes they can be applicable. Web 2.0 web design is simpler but catchier.
Although bevels, shadows and glows are seldom used in today's web designs, the use of gradients and patterns are very prominent. Web 2.0 logos are also bright colored, the usual colors are pink, yellow green, yellow, orange, red, and bright blue.
White is still the safest color as a background for web 2.0 design. However, one might notice that more and more websites are now embracing darker and non-conventional colors for web backgrounds like black, dark blue, and chocolote brown.
Going back to the logos, web 2.0 icons and graphics are also characterized by their bubbly appearances bearing strange, but cute and fanciful images. The age of web2.0 logos has also given birth glossy effects on text and on logos.
There is a website that hosts a complete directory of all web 2.0 sites. You can view them all at www.go2web20.net.
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