Web 2.0 Culture

In his blog Roman Mittermayr writes about Web 2.0 culture. What is Web 2.0 culture? Though it is about Web 2.0 and Ajax Roman wanted to look beyond this specific implementation technologies currently used to create web applications that utilize interconnections of webservices. This mix of Web2.0 and Ajax is what he terms 2.0 Culture. In the discussion he list some major “must-dos” as well as a couple of “do-nots”.

The major must-do list includes


Rounded Shapes
Shades
Sans Serif
Pastell v2.0
Footers
Buttons
Font-Size: Oversized
Descriptive HTML (XML style)
The major do not’s include;

Java Applets (Script is fine though)
Animated GIFs (the blinky ones)
100% Flash Websites
Visible tables
From the must do list, here is what Roman has to say about fonts.
I remember a time when it was absolutely out and “nerdy” to use Arial for anything you wrote. Simply because geeks tried to separate themselves from the every day Word Processor user, who were choosing Arial as most easily readable, besides Times New Roman. And now, wohoo, major come back. Literally Arial (and Helvetica, and similar...) has become a rule for simple, yet great looking web design. Font-Size 8 to 10 was a cool thing to do recently. Now we talking about sizes 14 and up. Not kidding.

The blog is littered with links to demonstrate his views and provide the reader with more information on how to achieve the desired effects. Roman doesn’t offer any clues as to why he has put Applets, flash, and animated blinky GIFs on the list of must not-do. Instead he leaves that as an exercise to the reader. What is on your list of must and must not do in web design?


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· Web 2.0 Culture by Kirk Pepperdine on Sun Feb 05 06:26:45 EST 2006
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