How to Create Web 2.0 Site

The Internet is undergoing an extreme makeover. In the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, the World Wide Web was primarily a place for viewers to retrieve information. The information flowed in a one-way direction. Websites were mostly built by “techie” folk who knew complex HTML coding and FTP site management. If you’re scratching your head, you’re not alone.

Then around 2004 a birth of new web tools began to pop up. These tools allowed common people like us to add content to the web. People with no programming skills were suddenly publishing their own journals, photographs, videos, auctions, podcasts, wikis, slideshows and more. The web became a two-way street. Everyday people were now creating the content.

By 2007, a second generation of the web had taken over – Web 2.0. Also known as the Read/Write Web, the new web is a breeding ground for creative and engaging educational endeavors.

Teachers are using the new Web 2.0 tools to launch their classroom into the 21st century. Students are creating online content, collaborating with other students around the world and showcasing their work to a global audience. Web 2.0 facilitates professional networking. It provides authentic learning experiences for students, and it encourages global awareness, creativity, innovation, critical thinking and collaboration. The knowledge our students will gain from engaging with Web 2.0 technologies will foster the communication and information literacy skills that are required in the 21st century.

The great thing about Web 2.0 tools is they are easy to use. Really. And it’s all free. Take some time to follow the links on the side, and you will soon be merging onto the information superhighway.

Web 2.0 “STYLE” web layout

How to Create Web 2.0 Site

Web 2.0 is the next version of web sites, the world is going to change their websites to be more attractive, simple, usable, scalable, bright and sharable by designing it with web 2.0 standards. web 2.0 is not changing the web design concept it’s also changing the web marketing concepts, programming concepts, and usability concepts.

Creating Web 2.0 Effects With Photoshop

The visual style that has come to be associated with the term Web 2.0 has exploded in popularity; everywhere you look, corporate sites, web service sites, ecommerce sites, and even personal blogs are making use of clean, minimalist design coupled with fancy graphic effects. If you’d like to jump on the bandwagon, this is the article for you! Using Photoshop, I’ll show you how to add Web 2.0 graphic goodness to your site design using non-destructive techniques. It may even take your site from boring to trendy!

Photoshop: Create Web 2.0 Button

Buttons Photoshop tutorials are probably one of the hottest categories in any Photoshop tutorials site and since Web 2.0 is such hot topics now, lets go about doing a simple button suitable for any Web 2.0 application of websites. Tutorial after jump.

Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients – FREE Download

Gradients are one of the most important aspects to be considered while designing a Web 2.0 Site. Even a simple button is of a gradient. So I decided to make some cool set of Gradients and put them together in an Adobe Photoshop Gradient file (.grd). These gradients are fully scalable, what i mean here is its not an image or so.. just create a shape and apply the gradient – As simple as that. You could create Logos, Backgrounds, Tabs, Buttons, Wallpapers, Toolbars and all sorts of stuff… I hope v2.0 was helpful a lot. Now this current version includes almost all the possible gradients… Feel free to use these cool set of gradients anywhere but please don’t forget to share this too…Gradients are one of the most important aspects to be considered while designing a Web 2.0 Site. Even a simple button is of a gradient. So I decided to make some cool set of Gradients and put them together in an Adobe Photoshop Gradient file (.grd). These gradients are fully scalable, what i mean here is its not an image or so.. just create a shape and apply the gradient – As simple as that. You could create Logos, Backgrounds, Tabs, Buttons, Wallpapers, Toolbars and all sorts of stuff… I hope v2.0 was helpful a lot. Now this current version includes almost all the possible gradients… Feel free to use these cool set of gradients anywhere but please don’t forget to share this too…

Web 2.0 how-to design guide

In this tutorial, I describe various common graphic design elements in modern web (”2.0″) design style.

I then attempt to explain why they work (i.e. why they have become common), as well as how, when and where you might use each element in your designs.

It follows on from my Current Style article, and analyses in greater depth the design features of the current “Web 2.0″ design style.

To learn how to design Web2.0 sites yourself, you must read “Save the Pixel – The Art of Simple Web Design”, which is a comprehensive guidebook to the principles and techniques of Web2.0 design.

How To Create a Dynamic Web 2.0 Brochure Site in an Hour

What will you have after an hour?

You will have a dynamic, easily updatable, search engine optimised ‘Web 2.0′ website (including RSS feeds so that you get the automatic high search engine rank that blogs enjoy assuming you create compelling content constantly):

An About Page
A Contact Us Form
A Products (or services page)
A simple front page with two paragraphs about your company and contact information plus a sidebar with links on the right which link to headlines from your five latest news articles.
A news page with news articles about press releases, events and news. If you keep writing compelling news articles, you will have a high search engine rank.

How to Create a Simple & Sleek Web 2.0 Site Footer

Since Web 2.0 hit the internet, footers have become more important than ever, and there has been some great looking work done downstairs. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to produce a sleek looking site footer in Photoshop.

Building your very own web2.0 layout

So you wanna look web2.0? You’ve come to the right place. In this short feature I’ll guide you through creating your very own webdesign template ready to be applied to your web2.0 application or blog or startup or what else you see fit. You’ll go from web1.0 to web2.0 in 10 minutes.

Web 2.0 Logos

Blue Web 2.0 Layout Advanced

The first Web 2.0 Blue Layout Tutorial focused on the text of the page. This tutorial will follow up by teaching you extra features and style you can add to the layout. Now there is an Added Logo on the left side with a small Menu Bar. On the right side is a graphic of the grand opening. This can be tweaked so that you can lower the opacity and right some text on it if you want. Below the ticket area, are two empty spaces which can be added for extra advertisement elements to go to another part of the site. Below that a Grey Box features a Download Now button, where you can quite possibly put a PDF file of the Schedule information, or change it to something different entirely. Subsections finish up the site where you can send a link to another area. This tutorial doesn’t focus much on text, and your welcome to ADD text to any areas you see fit. This tutorial is compatible with PSP 8 to 11, it was made with PSP 9.

Web 2.0 Badges

Web20Badges is a set of free and very cool web badges.

They are probably one of the most popular trend in Web 2.0 time. It’s most over-used trendy little design technique in our days, they immediately attract visitor’s attention. Web badges have various round or square corners and eye-catchy colours.

Badges can be used to display a big ‘Beta’ message on your website or emphasize a price or a promotion. No web 2.0 site is complete without one.

My Cool Button:

Web 2.0 Design Kit

Web 2.0 is a term coined by O’Reilly describing the new trends in design and development appearing across a flood of innovative websites. This tutorial will show you how to create some of the more popular “Web 2.0″ design effects using Photoshop.

Design Glossy Web 2.0 Button in Photoshop

Fire up a new canvas and adjust the following settings (marked in yellow) according to the image below. The rest should come as default. You might want to double check with the defaults too.

Designing Glossy (Web 2.0) Badges

This is a relatively basic Photoshop tutorial, but you should have basic knowledge of Photoshop and its tools to follow through to the end.

We’ll be learning how to design these glossy “Web 2.0″ badges in Photoshop. We’ll start off making the shape then styling it using layer styles and additional separate glossy layers.

Web 2.0 Photoshop Tutorial – VoiceTrader

We will start things off by creating a new Photoshop document: 1000px wide by 980px high, on a transparent background. Next we will create three separate rectangular blocks extending across the width of the canvas, each on their own layer. The first block is white (#FFFFFF), 72 px high and placed at the top of the canvas. Directly under the white bar we’ll create a orange (#FF7200) bar 158px high. Finally, we’ll fill the remaining canvas with a dark-gray (#2E2926) block 750px high.

WEB 2.0 Footers – How to keep peoples flow

One thing I’ve noticed recently is how some websites have decided to use footers as a way to keep people browsing their website.If you read a long article on a website, once you reach the bottom of the page, you arrive to a dead end. You have two options, maybe three if the website has been well thought and coded.