Web Design

Obsessing about forms

While for years we have seen galleries and top lists showing off homepages, lately there is a trend of best of comment form or search form design. We’ll see more of it 2009. I predict whole websites only dealing with forms. Usability and marketing experts and even books like Web Design for ROI have stressed the importance of proper form design.

Internet Explorer 6 support

With the market share of IE6 finally below 20% more sites will stop supporting it which will result in even more people switching due to experiencing problems with it. This will make way for overdue developments in website design which were previously unsupported.

Light weight websites

Light weight small website designs will return. With the huge success of netbooks and smartphones websites will become smaller again both in pixel and byte size as not everybody will want to create several versions for each viewer, even with different stylesheets.

Blogging a Must

While 2008 was still a year you had to convince people in business to blog in 2009 blogs will be standard and those not having one will simply fall behind. With social media and blogs being even on the forefront of a successful presidential campaign business owners who are just aware of the Internet solely offering storefronts and static pages full of corporate and sales gibberish will lose like McCain did.

Original post by Tad Chef.