subject: Web Designing: Seeing What You Believe!! [print this page] Curiosity for finding what New & Better is creates the design. Designing is seeing what you believe. Web designing has greatly increased its popularity in the field of designing. Web designing is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourages the human activity; reflect and adapt to individual voices and content; and changes gracefully over the time while always retaining their identity. Web designing is a very important part of the IT sectors which includes diverse skills. The 20th century marked the beginnings of more serious website designing. The enhanced tools for better web development started to be seen in the industry with Go Live and Dreamweaver. People could finally have better access to the creation of web pages by fighting with these tools. Web designers were starting to be in demand as more and more businesses wanted to create websites to increase sales. Web designers were confronted with the reality of keeping up with the fast-evolving trends and computer technology, if they wanted to be competitive. It has changed tremendously in the last few years and its still changing. More than changing, web design is evolving and evolution is bounded with complexity. The designer who can deliver the latest as per the market demands like designs for e-commerce websites, content management systems, optimized flash headers, etc. will surely have a bright future.
With the turn of the century Internet experienced a rise in standards. Designs without the use of tables started to gain terrain and CSS technology was also evolving. The next years after that were the years of Web 2.0. This is when the websites started to move towards the community and become more user-friendly. Now websites were using bolder typography and attractive colors as well as faster loading times. The websites developed numerous functionalities that users could easily access. Widgets are started to be used everywhere on blogs and websites in order to link with social networks, and the use of feeds started to become popular.
In the present year the Internet trends are moving towards the use of mobile devices, with the popular iPhones and iPads. Web designers now have to create websites that adapt to smaller screens, with applications that go with these, therefore, the future is focusing more on simplified websites for mobile devices. But one thing is to be kept in mind, Guys like Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Wozniak will still appear from time to time and the internet will keep changing. But as a web designer, UI designer or any other kind of designer your future is secure if you are willing to make efforts to get better, improve your skills and keep pace with this constantly shifting industry.
My advice is to keep fighting for what you believe and what you love, because no matter how good or bad the future is, you will have a spot in it.
