Website Trends To Watch For In 2014

TO WATCH FOR IN 2014

ARE YOU DESIGNING YOUR WEBSITE?

Here are 15 web design trends for 2014

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Start designing on the small screen, then widen out to tablets and desktops.

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Responsive Design. Use a responsive or adaptive design, so your website works great on

all screen sizes.

DESIGN THINGS

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Simplicity. Many web designs are going for a more minimalistic, simplified look.

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White Space. Goes along with simplicity. White space can help emphasize content.

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No Flash. Websites are still working on moving away from Flash and towards more modern

design languages like HTML5 and CSS3.

VISUAL TRENDS

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Parallax design is a way to provide design depth and almost a 3D look to your website.

CLICK TO CHECK EFFECT

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Flat Design focuses on clean design and good use of color and whitespace.

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Blocking organizes the site on blocks of content. Used on sites where there is a lot of content

and it is all on equal footing.

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Big Images. Use of large images on websites is a trend at the moment – even having a large

image in the background of a website.

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Colors. Using colors is big and web design is “colorful” these days.

Use a tool like Adobe Kuler to help choose

popular colors for a website.

TYPOGRAPHY

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Web Fonts. We’re no longer limited to a couple of web-safe fonts.

Think about using new web fonts like Google

Fonts or Typekit.

CONTENT

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CONTENT

Video. Video is still growing in importance and it’s an easy way to provide viewable content on

your website.

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CONTENT

Social Media. It is important for all types of websites. It’s a great way to share content out to customers in all the channels they hang out at.

NAVIGATION

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Large Buttons. Websites are starting to use large, easily seen buttons. Make them big and bold!

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Vertical Scrolling. Think about using “sticky” navigation that glues itself to the top of the page,

or social media sharing plugins that glue themselves to the side of a page.

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