Monday, February 13, 2012

Web Design Trends of 2012 (part two)

Online trends continue...

6. Minimal Animation
Gone are the days where everything beeps, moves and wiggles (unless of course you are an entertainment type website). Now we want subtle movement, user animated feedback and definitely no blinking!

7. Infographics
Most infographics provide data, charts, and supporting imagery so that anyone can follow along. One of our favorite examples is this one, explaining what Drupal is: http://visual.ly/what-drupal

8. Fixed Position Navigation
The idea is to keep the navbar and internal links/logo locked in place as your visitors scroll through the content. Usually floating over the content as you move down a page.

An example: http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/Glider/

9. Multi-Column Menus
You can easily display numerous links to your visitors and keep this section fitted squarely around your logo. Consider it an option to too many fly-outs.

10. jQuery/CSS3/HTML5 Animation
Say good-bye to Flash animations and hello to HTML5!
Sometimes it is ok to say good-bye when a better web solution arrives.
HTML5 can be seen on most browsers...including the iPAD (which we all know doesn’t see Flash files).

Read more: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/building-html5-css-webpages/

Trends #11-15 coming next week!