We have already discussed some of the top design and development trends of 2013 in our previous post. In this particular session, we aim to discuss about few other trends that has been dominating the web design and development industry in the year 2013. Proper implementation of these trends can help you create smarter websites that are sure to offer greater benefit for your business.

Here is a quick look at some of the other leading trends of the design and development industry –

1. Transparency of CSS

The enhanced properties of the new CSS3 allow edits of dullness, murkiness or cloudiness over any element in a webpage. Such a characteristic ensures that you hold the entire control of generating optimal transparency of your webpage in any contemporary web browser without the help of Photoshop. A remarkable design technique for controlling transparency is through the usage of rgba ( ) color syntax. When using CSS for designing purpose, you can specify colors by making use of Blue, Green, Red, and Alpha-Transparency values. Therefore, the syntax rgba (255,255,255, 0.6) would produce the color white with 60% capability.

2.  Use of Big Photo Backgrounds

Everybody in love with photography or images will be enjoying this particular trend of the design industry. Having oversized photographs in background is sure to capture the attention of the visitor. Additionally, this particular design trend when seamlessly blended in your layout can offer a great marketing edge to your website. However, to experience the ultimate advantage of big photo backgrounds, you must integrate it properly into your design.

3.  Application of Designed Illustrations

The introduction of new design trends in the market has mostly been focused on the concept of capturing the attention of the user or visitor. Illustration is one such design trend of 2013 that essentially helps in drawing and capturing the user’s attention onto a particular webpage. You can consider using illustrations to depict the various moods of your website. A look around the web is sure to help you come across multiple website galleries exhibiting a range of digital illustrations.

4. Implementation of Social Media Badges

In today’s competitive age, success and failure of a website often depends on the marketing aspect of the same. A website that is marketed properly holds better chance of being at the top against the ones that are poorly marketed.  With the passage of time, the concept of marketing or marketing techniques has witnessed great evolution. Today, viral marketing and social media marketing are noted as the principle platforms of making a website get noticed in the industry. In your choices, you have some of the leading social media platforms like, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc. You can place social media badges in your articles, blogs, or anywhere in the layout as desired. These badges are still being actively used by readers and users to share contents easily across the web.

5. Adaptability to Infinite Scrolling

The feature of infinite scrolling has been in the design and development industry for quite some time, but the technique has never been used conventionally, until 2013. This particular technique if implemented properly can do wonders for the layout of a website allowing an infinite search of anything on the webpage. This loading technique actually makes the search result page load continuously in line with your downward scrolling. However, you must remember that this particular web design trend does not suit every layout, but offers a phenomenal change in the look and behavior of the website that can adapt to the technique wonderfully.

6. Use of Digital Quick Response (QR) Codes

The excessive use and superior dominance of Smartphones has directed the rush in the usage of QR code in the web. These quick response codes are an advanced form of the previous UPC barcodes. These codes are mostly found in event venues and restaurants. However, of late these are also found on few websites. QR codes have evolved into a design trend, as it allows quicker transmission of data.

The aforesaid web design and development trends are dominating the industry, as more and more companies are adapting to these newest techniques for experiencing a better global online presence. Proper implementation of these trends or techniques in your web design and development task can do wonders for your website.

The field of website design and development has been witnessing a lot of changes and improvements since the last few years. The surge in the web design trends has urged the designers all over to try them out on their respective websites. Fortunately, many of these ideas have been quite fruitful and beneficial. This has automatically led to the adaption of newer techniques and strategies. In the present blog, we are about to initiate a discussion on the popular web design trends that are going to make their place in the present year, 2013. Let’s delve a little deeper into these trends and find out how their application can help you create smart websites.

Responsive Designs

Responsive layouts are in. The idea behind responsive web design is to create a single platform that is dynamic and fluid in nature. The use of flexible grids and images allows responsive websites to fit into the varying display and screen resolutions of a range of devices. Responsive websites let you reach out to the tablet and Smartphone users with commendable ease and effectiveness. However, the advantage of the concept of responsive website design does not stay restricted to just design but extends beyond that to include search engine optimization too. A responsive website can be managed with a single set of links and thus, optimizing these sites becomes easier.

Retina Display and Support

Alongside the emergence of responsive layout for websites, there is also a growing preference for the retina devices. Retina display basically refers to the monitors and devices that have resolution and pixel density, as high as 300 or more pixels per inch. The density of the retina screens is twice of an average LCD. Thus, the number of physical pixels remains the same with the digital pixels turning out to be double and fitting into the same physical space.

Fixed Header Bars

Fixed Header Bars work wonderfully well on all types of websites that also include social networks, blogs and many more. The design looks classy and trendy at the same time, something very desirable these days. Apart from ensuring a good outward appearance, fixed header bars offer better user experience. With the header fixed on top of the website, visitors can scroll down the page, enjoying an easy navigation. Using the CSS position: fixed; properly is the suggested way of stapling a header bar onto your website.

Minimalist Landing Pages

If you have been keeping track of the developments in the field of online marketing, you must have come across the popularity of the landing pages of the websites. Landing pages help a lot in capturing leads and the current trend is to keep these landing pages as simple as possible. There should be no overdoing of anything and the designs should highlight and emphasize on the core product or service, offered by the business. Effective backgrounds combined with easily readable texts and a one- click checkout process proves perfect.

The above- mentioned ones are emerging to be the hottest trends in website design and development in the present year. We will discuss about more of such in the next blog. So, keep reading.

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The category wise photo gallery lets you see the images of the boats put under the specific categories to which they belong. For instance, you get to see different sections like the Pilot Twenty Four, Pilot Eighteen and so on. Clicking on each of these allows you view the album featuring the photos of the boats falling under the respective categories. This unique type of photo gallery paves the way for a better view compared to the pattern in which the images are arranged rather simply.

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