Visual Design Characteristics of Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is many things. In fact, some would argue that it is too many things and, as a result, people have a difficult time figuring out what it encompasses. I won't go into that here. However, one key element of Web 2.0 is its unique visual design trend. Reflections, clean, simple, and wordmarks without the final consonant. The link below includes a summary of over 65 tutorials, references, and related resources, which have been designed to help you to create graphics in Web 2.0-Look. Have a look and start Web 2.0izing your designs.

 

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Way to go Go Daddy and Google!


After a bit of back and forth with Go Daddy support and references back to the instructions on Blogger, I've managed to get this blog accessible from my new karelvredenburg.com domain. Its so cool when things like this work.

Its been my experience, by the way, that the new Web 2.0 companies like Digg.com, Google, and Go Daddy, are particularly good at support and also base ease of use. I had a problem with my Digg.com account, I resolved it in a matter of hours via multiple emails with their support staff each time getting a response within 30 to 60 minutes. I experienced the same with Go Daddy over the last few days. I even got an unsolicited phone call!

So, the site is up on the domain and I'm all set now to blog at a single location.

Moved to a new domain

I've created a new domain for all of my blog activity at karelvredenburg.com. This should simplify my blogging and simplify people finding my blog material. It wasn't immediately obvious how to do the various steps in setting up a new domain name and then getting my blog on that domain name. Let me describe it for anyone who wants to do the same.

Details to come...

Using Social Computing to Stay Sane!

I think the social computing aspects of Web 2.0 provide a mechanism for communication between people from across the globe to share ideas, strategies, personal experiences, and get advice. Web 2.0 also simply connects people so that nobody is ever alone again!

But then again, spending all your time online could prevent you from making actual human connections with other people.

I'd very much appreciate your thoughts on this by providing a comment to this blog entry.