Web Design

Website Design

Well here we go... Web 2.0 has to do with different forms of participation. You can see this in the large, popular, user-created-content sites like Facebook MySpace, Flickr, or You-Tube - those sites depend on participation from the users just like you and I for their very survival.

If you are getting your feet wet for the first time with regard to website design then you'll need to be aware and educated of your options, Web 2.0 is all about options, theres a whole new vocabulary that cooralates with what is considered Web 2.0, here are justa few.

Blogging— So you want to get your BLOG on! A blog is a website that provides news on a specific topic subject. It may be something you're personally interested in or the blog may consist of strictly business matters. Blogs have also become very popular as an added addition to an already existing website, more or less and extension. You're regular website may be all about the business at hand but your BLOG may have a more casual tone.

Social Media— Social media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. This interaction, and the manner in which information is presented, depends on the varied perspectives and "building" of shared meaning, as people share their stories, and understandings. Source: Wikipedia.com.

Viral Marketing— Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. Source: Wikipedia.com.

Wiki— A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. Source: Wikipedia.com.