Useful Web 2.0 Designs and Techniques

Web 2.0 has been all the rave on web designs and is considered as the next generation style of making web pages. Even blogging theme designs has gone to that road with the popularity of new magazine style wordpress themes.

It’s awesome and you want it too. But paying for an exclusive theme design could be a big turn-off especially if you’re just starting out your blog, right?

No worries! Modify your own theme and add these useful and cool Web 2.0 designs and techniques.

Oh before going to the list, you might want to subscribe to my RSS Feeds because I plan to make a free WP-Theme implementing these Web 2.0 techniques. You don’t want to miss that, right?

Note: These ARE NOT plugins. You must understand or at least be able to read CSS codes for you to edit your themes.

The Slider Effect

This technique is very popular but is best demonstrated by Nick La. An element of your webpage, if triggered with an event like MouseOver can slide in real time without loading the whole page.

Implementation: (Advanced) Uses JQuery. Guides on JQuery Tutorials.

Javascript Tooltips

Javascript Tooltips basically shows a picture or text beside your mouse cusor whenever you highlight a ‘thing’ on your webpage. Awesome, right?

Implementation: (Intermediate) Javascript Tooltips Tutorial.

Tabbed Contents

This can be commonly seen in magazine style themes. It creates a tab that partly loads by itself when clicked as not to reload the whole webpage.

Implementation: (Intermediate) Tab Tutorial

Thickbox

This technique is commonly used in showing portfolios. What it does is turns the whole page dark and shows the image or file in the center of the screen for a certain event like clicking the image. Here is a demo to see it in action.

Implementation: (Intermediate) Thickbox Tutorial

Additional Resources:
15 Day JQuery Tutorial
Running JQuery Sample Downloads

Did you find the Web 2.0 designs and techniques useful? I plan to make a free WP-Theme implementing them, do you think I should continue? I’d love to hear your insights and comments on this.

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