2009 Website Trends

Web and Graphic Designers such as ourselves are very creative and always looking for new and exciting ways to dazzle our viewers. This in turn creates many new trends as more and more designers pick up these techniques. We are going to show you some of the biggest of these trends for 2009 and explain the advantages to using these techniques in your own work.

To begin, typography and font trends are becoming more and more prevalent.

Embossing letterpress in order to give titles a “pressed” look has rarely been used until now. This technique adds a refined style to titles, and gives it a solid look that really looks nice.

Embossed Lettering

Embossed Lettering

Large typography is being used more and more by design agencies, portfolios, product sites and online services in order to highlight their sites most important messages. Using fonts above 36 and extravegant typefaces, these designers aim to make their sites look more visually appealing as well as strong and sensible.

Large Typography

Classic font styles such as Helvetica, Arial, Georgia and Verdana, which although admittedly dominant, are starting to be replaced by new fonts. These fonts are being seamlessly integrated into website designs. Designers are attempting to blend these new fonts into their designs in order to improve the design of their sites.

New Fonts

Now, we’re going to get into interface trends, which are constantly changing.

First is the use of rich user interfaces. New techniques are being used to make websites and applications more visually appealing. Use of padding and white space has become greater in the past year.

Rich Interface

The use of transparent pngs has increased in an attempt to better integrate background images into the content. The use of semi-transparent backgrounds is helpful in making the image stand out in the overall background of the page, highlighting an important element.

Transparent PNG

These are only a few of the many new design trends so be sure to check back for more.

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2 Comments to 2009 Website Trends

1. 

   Hi..

   The list in this article are good but doesn’t seems to be 2009 trends and also looks like its incomplete.

   So if to know about the various trends in web design one must visit websites, blogs, read books, magazines and articles like this one and also explore new design agencies.

   Thanks
John milton on January 28th, 2009
2. 

   john is saying right, we need more things on this topic. You have wrote great.
Logo Design - Consultant on January 21st, 2010

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