The Age of Web Design
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios

Defined Tag: Web Design.

As business continues to proliferate on the World Wide Web the art of successful web design grows in importance. Poorly designed websites are far more likely to cause visitors to click the dreaded “X” in the upper right corner. Competent web design with flash animation and other bells and whistles usually provides sites with a fresh, vibrant look that keeps Internet surfers on the site or makes them repeat visitors.

Tim Berners-Lee was the father of web design and actually invented the World Wide Web, launching the first website in August 1991. Lee synergized hypertext with Internet communication to create the information super-highway and his ingenuity has revolutionized information technology throughout the world. The first language used in web design was HTML – Hypertext Mark-up Language – and it allowed pages to be linked together. This important new language separated web design from all other pre-existing methods of design. As innovation was applied to HTML the language became increasingly more intricate and compliant to manipulation. With web design flourishing, the advent of Macromedia Flash further revolutionized the industry by allowing web design pros and media specialists to integrate more user-friendly features onto websites.

With the Internet boom of the 1990’s, cyberspace witnessed the creation of businesses, large and small, dedicated to web design. Each year the technology for creating user-friendly website content improves and that bodes well for these companies. Literally hundreds of thousands of out-dated websites exist in the prime number graveyard of cyberspace, waiting to be overhauled and redesigned. With so many possible clients out there, the future of web design is bright. Consider this, after the dot-com bust that all but eviscerated the stock market in early 2000, web design has remained a lucrative venture for businesses throughout the globe.

The global marketplace continues to shift its location from the physical world to the virtual world of the Internet. Web design professionals create content-rich sites that provide information, facilitate transactions, and present options for communication that just decade ago seemed right out of science-fiction. As the world continues to change, web design continues to be an important part of that change.

BIG Mike is a well known author, developer and Adsense expert as well as the owner of Niche Maniacs - a unique Adsense Marketing System designed to build long-term passive income streams from Adsense, YPN, Chitika and other PPC services.