What is Web 2.0?

What you have to understand right off the bat about Web 2.0 is that it’s not a new program or some sort of ‘web law’. It’s actually more of a revolution, a term used to describe the expanding functions of the internet, the main one being increased interactivity between users of the World Wide Web. The term itself has no set definition because it comes in different forms to different users of the internet. For example, eBay, one of the biggest e-commerce websites on the web, and Facebook, a social networking site, have both used Web 2.0 in different ways. The main idea of Web 2.0 can be best seen as the realization of the uses of the internet and the increasing creativity of web vendors and users alike. Like I said before, the interactivity between users has been very important in this creative evolution; Facebook and eBay have completely different uses, but they both have a certain level of internet users coming into contact with each other.

For web designers, however, the term has come to represent a set of new coding techniques and languages used to make websites. These new types of coding techniques include:

Ajax – Ajax is itself a group of techniques used to create web applications. Bits of information are exchanged with the web server in real time so that the pages do not have to be constantly refreshed... read more

XHTML / CSS – these are markup languages that work well with each other to produce scripted... read more

Tableless Pages – Before the Web 2.0 revolution, websites were built with content in a series of tables that were constructed offline and then uploaded onto the web... read more

NewsML - NewsML is an XML format for news content... read more