Difference between web 2.0 and web 3.0

One day I bought a mango sapling and planted it in the garden of my farm house. I was too excited to get some juicy mangoes in the coming summer. I used to water the tree everyday and daydream about the mangoes! Next summer my tree was full of juicy mangos. But my expectations were also growing in leaps and bounds. Now I was hoping for some miracle and was expecting to get mangoes, oranges and apples from the same tree!!

Now do not tell me that it is something really odd or I was growing mad! I swear I can imagine something better than that too! If I could get my virtually projected girl friend and me strolling on the virtual sea shore or could easily have an opportunity to play Formula 1 finding myself as Jenson Button, inside the computer and feeling the exact sensation sitting on my computer desk then an easy grafting can bring out the result to a tree to bear such three fruits together! Well, that’s not all in my imagination. That’s the budding concept of web 3.0.

You may think –“is this guy really out of his mind?” No I am not. A few days ago I also had to scratch my head for a while just like you when one of my clients from USA asked me to design a website suitable to web 3.0. I asked him why not web 2.0? It has all that the business is in need presently! I tried to make him understand that web 2.0 is the present trend of the web design and development. Why you do not try believing that web 3.0 technologies are still a thought process inside the pipeline! He then endowed me with a great piece of advice “Don’t live for the present. Live for the future!”

He encouraged me to apply the newest of the technologies in application on website design and development. I then assured him that I never make any fuss on adapting new technologies. Rather I would be more than happy to design for a technology that relies more on the user experience, irrespective of the look or the layout!

So it is time to tell you what difference I have found between web 2.0 and web 3.0. And slowly I am developing an addiction to the later one! Want to know why? Have a look:

Gone are the days of searching for Pizza Hut or asking your friend if he likes Pizza or not!

Until 1999 the internet was taken as a useful media where anybody can make a heap of information which is supposed to be used by the people in search of such information. If you are looking for ‘Pizza’ you have to find its availability to your nearest location from the huge number of search engine result pages (by the time your appetite could have poke you out to a nearest cake shop to douse the fire with a pastry).

But in web 3.0 era you don’t even have to think of a friend who likes pizza! You got to write just that you are hungry and you want to get information on which shops you may get pizza first on the basis of your previous searches on likes and dislikes. Isn’t it like your personal assistant who knows that you like pizza when you are hungry! It is the magic of web 3.0 that uses resource description framework (RDF) and other applications which empower your machine and related software to read, analyze and produce results for you. Yahoo! search is believed to be based upon web 3.0.

Forget propagating “my template designs should be slim and trim - have a look”

This present era is all about sharing information. Hardly we can find out anybody who does not have a facebook, twitter and similar social networking accounts or profiles. This is nothing but the web 2.0 trends that asks everybody to share information either in elaborate way or in 140 characters. I can remember the rise of Blogger (in 1999) which has given the start to the exposer of expression openly. And within a few years came facebook and twitter that added sharing option to expression and the total thing got immensely popular!

But what’s about the web 3.0? Certainly it is managing the social contacts in structures to create a database which is available to the individuals in an inter-connected manner. It will help the individual to reach everything simply fast. So there is no need to be afraid that your work is going to be lost among other thousands. Machines and software are going to work for you in reaching people who are in need of exactly the service you render.

Web is going to be based on augmented reality, what about present reality?

With the advent of the smart phones and blackberry type services the web had already gone portable. The slender look of the web 2.0 had well matched with the format. But people have started to think beyond reality! The virtual reality came into being. In this world the 3D application took people to a new life where everything has gone virtual and people started to enjoy the things. The web 2.0 was the basis to introduce this. But soon the concept of virtual reality started to adopt augmented reality! And this is the introduction of another web 3.0 technology.

Now with a spectacle or camera or phone users are going to feel 3D experience for anything he or she is looking into. The users are going to feel and know anything anywhere. It encompasses from knowing any product on the go before buying or just to get information about any service. Just a desire to get anything will lead to projection of that in 3D model in front of eyes. One day it could easily happen when I am passing by you and you could easily reckon me and say you have written the article about the difference between web 2.0 and web 3.0 right?

Just wait and watch what the coming decade is to offer!!

To sum up the things I can say, let computer and software adapt the artificial intelligence. We will not even type anything in the search box of any search engine but will just think of the matter and everything will be in front of us. But till the web 3.0 comes out of the thinking pipeline web 2.0 is going to reign the World Wide Web. We have to admit that believing the reality is inevitable, rest is future! The evolution in the field of technology has bought to us the web 2.0 and one day web 3.0 will be reality. Who knows what will be the concept of web 4.0!

How to design printer friendly web page

Today almost the whole world has gone tech-savvy. Whatever information we are looking for can be easily got from internet. That is why so many websites are there. But it does not mean the need or the use of printed information are vanished. We still have little bit ease in using printed information especially applicable for elderly people and children. In other words we should say this is why printer friendly web page is available.

Now we may say what the uses of printer friendly web page are and how to make the webpage really printable? What are the reasons web pages becomes printer unfriendly? First see why we need printable version of the web pages.

• Use of animation and other dynamic effects cause trouble for reading and users then feel that there may be a printable version.
• Long and informative articles or texts becomes little strenuous to read on the digital media (monitor, e-book reader).
• It is not always possible to carry the reading devices with us. If we may have a printer friendly web page and take print, we can carry it anywhere.

Now the question comes how to make the web pages printer friendly? And it is fact that with a little care of the things I have tried to put down here will help in making any web page a printer friendly web page. Let us find few things:

• First to increase the readability of the webpage and also to ready printer friendly web page the font size should be 12pt and font color is preferably black on white background. And the links has to be underlined to show them as links.
• Necessarily the animation effects have to be used less or there has to be option to print pages without animation. Otherwise the print impression becomes illegible.
• Web pages include advertisements. People taking print of any page for gathering information would like to avoid advertisements. So keep option to print the pages without advertisements. This makes user happy and web pages printer friendly web page.
• To make a web page worthy to be printed, the height, width and margin has to be set or given option to adjust.
• To prepare printer friendly web page is to use CSS media types, and in coding use of HTML 4.01 and above versions. These two design tools works fine to make pages printable. Avoid using too much table base coding and never use frames. It also helps in preparing print version of pages.

So now it is crystal clear that with little and easy steps, a web page can be made printer friendly. Whatever the case may be, the fundamental thing is to keep the web pages clean and worth reading. Never thrust the pages with too many animation effects or advertisement. Remember, if you first irritate the users with a clumsy look, it is going to cost you in the loose of users.

If you want to know how to keep the design intact in look and make every webpage printer friendly web page, hire website designer who knows how to design web pages both printer friendly and stunning in looks! At least as a freelance graphic designer, I always design website layouts or templates printer friendly. You may have a look at my portfolio and you could understand how templates are great in look! And yet those can be made very much printer friendly.