subject: Webportals Getting Interactive With Web 2.0 [print this page] From the time since web 2.0 has been introduced, manner in which online business proceedings used to occur has been changed a lot. Here major areas that have witnessed transformation are the computing platform serving users as well as the web applications. There are different web 2.0 technologies like AJAX, XML, API, etc that are used by website owners to enhance their various professional online activities.
If we compare web 2.0 with web 1.0, we would find that the latter consists of static web pages whereas the former one provides dynamic web pages that are updated on regular basis. So if you want to get success hold over this technology, keep yourself tech-savvy and well-informed. RSS, XML, peer-to-peer, bandwidth costs, blogs, wireless, sharing, and communities and so on are some areas which mainly concerns web 2.0. Whereas web 1.0 concerns read only websites, portals, hardware costs, dial up, Netscape, home pages, etc.
Its use has been increased by double fold in past few years. Professionals like web developers, bloggers and web designers use this technology for brighter results via RSS blogs, social Bookmarking and tags that helps in making a website more attractive and alluring. The approach of normal and ecommerce websites have been widened due to web 2.0. People prefer websites that are dynamic and interesting, basically it should be able to excite the users and keep them attracted to your website. Web 2.0 has the ability to use many types of concepts that can give varied look and feel to a website by using different styles.
Shifting of web 1.0 to web 2.0 has combined different segments of the World Wide Web. In modern times websites are not perceived just as a platform for selling or buying of products or services. It has to be interactive in nature where people can share their opinions, information and thoughts through online platforms like social communities and blogs. It has made people come closer at global level.
Here you can use this technology for inserting many new and advanced features in your website which gives modern look to it. People can experiment with newer techniques using web 2.0. Ready-to-use modules can also be used for website designing purpose. Web 2.0 helps in promotion of designing ideas through the means of superior quality of content that contains true and reliable information for the readers. If you put up blogs, forums and RSS feeds in your website, it would yield positive results from users side.
