Trend Analysis on Navigation from Smashingmagazine

Navigation design plays a vital role in making a site/blog popular and equally successful. Smashing magazine has come out with a new article on Navigation menu trend analysis. The article proves to be a good reference for any creative site/blog design, as it covers most of the available menu styles and its best examples. You will end up with a clear insight and design trends of navigation menu. So gear up to redesign your blog navigation!

Article Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/26/navigation-menus-trends-and-examples/

Best CSS Tips, Web Trends at StylizeWeb.com

Stylizedweb the black and white blog, rolls out with clear focus in CSS,JS, and web trends. This has very interesting and useful postings that could make your life easier. My favorite posts from the site :

10 best CSS hacks
30 Best Firefox add-ons
PNG transparency issues
Vertical align div

Conceptshare

ConceptShare is an application targeted at creative professionals that allows for the creation and management of interactive workspaces to present visual designs to others, in order to communicate design intentions and gather feedback from team members.
Its user interface is highly intuitive, the idea and the way it provides to execute the idea is impressive.

The key features and workflow involves:

1. Makes sharing designs and gathering feedback easy.
2. You can share Markup and Review Designs with Ultr-Fast web Performance.
3. Add Comments about specific design elements or changes.
4. Reply to comments to initiate discussions around elements.
5. You can upload designs to the workspace as they are completed.
6. Annotations are embedded in Comment layers.
7. You can Mark, Crop and highlight areas for further discussion.
8. It allows importing popular image for formats including PDF and DWG while retaining vector quality.

Also Check:
http://www.conceptshare.com
http://www.conceptshare.com/tour/resources/movie.html

The future of Web Culture, Technology and Trends

The year 2006 gave way for tremendous growth in Social Networking and popularity of RSS feed. We can call it Web2.0 or whatever term that describes it well as per industry standards.

I feel RSS feeds will hook a large number of users over the web and we could also see a lot more of AJAX powered web applications to support the flow of this form of data structure. Structured Data, Widgets, RIA, SEO and Online Advertising are going to be the turn around of the future of World Wide Web. Will Firefox come up with something to beat the barriers of browser competition? We will have to wait and see.

Google, lam sure will have something up their sleeves for the year 2008, With their Google Base service online, we should expect good response from users for their intense and extensive search capabilities of various Products and Services, based on user specific filter criteria.

Online TV! what can you think of? Joost! These guys truly have a wonderful service. TV channels through broadband lines.

We would see a lot more than the above and need to wait it out and also see if Amazon is coming up their Amazon Web Services based OS or will Google ADsense have competition or will there be another form of Search Engine or have more powerful browsers integrated with every possible feature/widget that a user could dream of. Let us see what is more to come.......