WEBSITE COMPANIES

We are passionate about small business marketing. And while Webs’ family of products offers the tools small business website owners need for great online marketing, we know that sometimes tools alone are not enough. Sometimes, you also need the instructions.

That’s why we created the Business Websites, where you will find informative articles to help your small business succeed – from branding advice to website tips to infographics. We also have advice for various small business types, to address their specific marketing challenges. We hope you’ll find this information helpful, and best of luck with your business websites!

Webside Design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; interface design; authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software; user experience design; and search engine optimization. Often many individuals will work in teams covering different aspects of the design process, although some designers will cover them all. The term web design is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end (client side) design of a website including writing mark up. Web design partially overlaps web engineering in the broader scope of web development. Web designers are expected to have an awareness of usability and if their role involves creating mark up then they are also expected to be up to date with web accessibility guidelines.

10 WEBSIDE DESIGN YOU CAN EXPECT TO SEE IN 2016

Webside Design often span several years (even decades for some types of design), but Web design is a quickly moving and changing industry where trends come and go quite often.

We’re still working with some of those trends now: responsive web design, flat design, performance and speed, and perfecting the user experience. However, what are some of the new and emerging trends we can expect to see in 2016?

As a Web designer myself, I’ve noticed we just can’t seem to get the navigation or menu of a website down. We keep playing with it, experimenting, and doing different things to get it to work well and be useful.

We do things such as put it in a new and unexpected place, hide it behind a hamburger icon (a trend I mentioned for 2015), or just throw it up there because we know it is needed but it doesn’t look very good.

We struggle to figure out exactly the best way to showcase this important piece of content to make it usable no matter the screen it’s being viewed on. We continue to experiment in ways to figure out what works best. For example, Shellshock above is experimenting with both the hamburger icon menu reveal with a cards inspired layout for their navigation.

Expect to see more experimentation as we work through trying to figure out how to do navigations and menus well.