In our day and age, as computers become more and more user-friendly and web-building tools that can be used by a 5 or 85 year old alike, it is tempting to get your nephew to build the website for you, or to write your blog.

Couple of month ago we asked ourselves what we’d like to see in websites in the near future, what features, components, interesting design solutions. Considering the fact that new technologies such as jQuery, MooTools, Ajax, widgets, get more and more popular among web designers providing whole new level of interactivity, it was interesting to find out how it will affect approach to web design along with fresh graphical solutions. So we’ve done our research and discuss the topic with our associates, colleagues and other professionals and here is the summary of what we’ve found out.

One of many things that we discuss with our clients is rebuilding their websites to reflect the new image of their company. Normally, these design and content changes are accompanied by a domain name change. Obviously, no one wants to lose the traffic that comes from the search engine high rankings and to start doing the SEO work from scratch neglecting the effort that was invested in ranking the original website.

For the beginning let's try to sum up the trends in web design for last couple of years and what we have for today. Also let's identify the distinctive features that make a modern webpage look fresh, appealing and easy to use.