3 essential technologies for a modern web design

Written by Timos Zabetakis

Adapting a web design to the new trends is an essential practice to improve a website's functionality, thus increasing the incoming traffic.

Among the new technologies for web design, we distinguished the three most essential for a modern web design.

HTML5/CSS3

The HTML language is the backbone of the world wide web. Even today, 23 years after its introduction, the knowledge of HTML is an absolute essential for web design. The new version HTML5 has significant new features such as seamless integration of video and audio files that ensure optimum display of a website, regardless of operating system and browser. The combined use of new CSS construction techniques, provides a fully responsive web design that aims to deliver fully featured websites on screens of any size.

jQuery

Probably the most sought after requirement for modern web design. The jQuery framework is a modern method for the construction of flexible plugins, based on Javascript. The possibilities are endless, as it allows quick and easy creation of any vital component of a modern website. Customizable navigation menus, impressive slideshows and correlations of a website with social networks, are now instantly possible thanks to jQuery!

Open Graph Protocol

The rapid spread of social media is radically changing the structure of the web. The correlation of people and objects is an essential practice for the development of the so-called "semantic web" that will provide faster and more efficient information tracking. Integration of the Open Graph protocol ensures a website's semantic registration in the most popular social network, but also provides a significant traffic boost, originating from new "Like"s.