2008 Web Design Trends

Here is a list of 82 sites picked from Best Web Gallery that show the current design trends.

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Leading websites

 

 The List of sites which are all leading in their respective domains.

1	http://www.15Talents.com	Student Market Place	26	http://www.Joost.com	Peer-to-Peer TV
2	http://www.Snoitulos.com	Enterprise 2.0 Suite	27	http://www.Basecamphq.com	Project Planning Software
3	http://www.monitor110.com	Financial Blog Analyzer	28	http://www.Woot.com	Online Shop
4	http://www.Weblin.com	Avatars	29	http://www.Techcrunch.com	web 2.0 Weblog
5	http://www.Zlango.com	Instant Messaging	30	http://www.SecondLife.com	Virtual World
6	http://www.Zopa.com	P2PLoans	31	http://www.Twitter.com	Micro Blogging Service
7	http://www.earthmine.com	3D Maps Enabler	32	http://www.Farecast.com	Airfare Predictions
8	http://www.Slideshare.net	Presentation-sharing	33	http://www.43Things.com	Activity Community
9	http://www.faceforce.com	CRM Tool	34	http://www.PartyPoker.com	Online Poker
10	http://www.Sonopia.com	Community MVNO	35	http://www.Eventful.com	Event Community
11	http://www.Housingmaps.com	Real Estate Mashup	36	http://www.Etsy.com	Marketplace
12	http://www.Current.tv	Broadcasting Community	37	http://www.Del.icio.us	Social Bookmarking Community
11	http://www.Dash.net	Navigation System	38	http://www.Last.fm	Music Community
12	http://www.Tripit.com	Travel Plan	39	http://www.Linkedin.com	Business Network
13	http://www.Techmeme.com	News Aggregator	40	http://www.Zillow.com	Real Estate Valuations
14	http://www.Qik.com	Mobile Video Streaming	41	http://www.Technorati.com	Webblog Search Engine
15	http://www.Xobni.com	MS Outlook Extension	42	http://www.King.com	Gaming Community
16	http://www.Spreadshirt.net	Personalized Fashion	43	http://www.Clubpenguin.com	Virtual World for Kids
17	http://www.Treehugger.com	Sustainability Blog	44	http://www.Craigslist.org	Social Classified Commercials
18	http://www.Asterpix.com	Video Tagging	45	http://www.Digg.com	News Community
19	http://www.OpenID.net	Identity Provider	46	http://www.Flickr.com	Photo Sharing Community
20	http://www.Mturk.com	Microjob Community	47	http://www.Facebook.com	Student Community
21	http://www.Netvibes.com	Personalized Start Page	48	http://www.Pipes.yahoo.com	Mashup Editor
22	http://www.Musicovery.com	IPRadio	49	http://www.Wikipedia.org	Online Encyclopedia
23	http://www.WooMe.com	Speed Dating Community	50	http://www.YouTube.com	Video Sharing Community
24	http://www.Mint.com	Social Finance Software	51	http://www.MySpace.com	General Interest Community
25	http://www.Compete.com	Traffic Analyzer

 

 

 

Colour Lovers

If you are planning changes to your Web site, Colour Lovers helps you work out what color schemes work well together. It also gives you RGB and Hex reference numbers if you want to pass them on to your site developer.
http://www.colourlovers.com/

fevicon

 Useful link for fevicon design

http://www.favicongenerator.com/

Web 2.0

The original conception of the web (in this context, labelled Web 1.0comprised static HTML pages that were updated rarely, if at all. The success of the dot-com era depended on a more dynamic web (sometimes labeled Web 1.5 where content management systems served dynamic HTML web pages created on the fly from an ever-changing content database In both senses, so-called eyeballing was considered intrinsic to the web experience, thus making page hits and visual aesthetics important factors.

Proponents of the Web 2.0 approach believe that web usage is increasingly oriented toward interaction and rudimentary ssocial networks, which can serve content that exploits network effects with or without creating a visual, interactive web page. In one view, Web 2.0 sites act more as points of presence, or user-dependent web portals, than as traditional websites

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