Website Design in 2010

You've heard the term Web 2.0 before; maybe you've been hearing the term Web 3.0. What does that mean for the small business owner? Web 3.0 is providing web-based applications with greater interactivity, combining social media, and more complex search capabilities. Many of these technoolgies may be beyond the reach of small business owners, but there are new trends that can apply to a website of any size.

The current trend is towards simpler, larger websites. Trends include:

- Clean and Simple Designs
- Single-page websites
- Sliders
- Modal boxes (Pop-up without leaving page)
- Smart Navigation and Taskbars
- Clever use of typography
- Larger page layouts

Read the article here.

Some of the interactive features becoming more common are also quite affordable, such as sliders and modal boxes.

Search Engine traffic

Although written in 2008, this article by Jill Whalen is still valid today. Without spending money on Pay-per-click or other forms of advertising, you can still improve the traffic to your website. These techniques will bring more qualified prospects to your website. Quality is definitely more importatn that quantity.

www.highrankings.com/tentips

Google Social Search

Too busy to follow Twitter and other social media? Still want to know what friends and colleagues have to say on your topics of interest? Enter Google - Social Search. Still in BETA, when you search Google on a topic, it will search to see if anyone in your gmail address book has posted on the topic.

More info from Google