Business Web 2.0 Site Design Inspiration
Are you a Web 2.0 website designer/developer? Only like to visit websites that look like Digg.com and Sitepoint.com? Well, I bet is very hard for you to find inspiration when designing websites for businesses!
It's always difficult to explain to business owners why the early 90's style website design is no longer considered, "Good." Most of the time they don't understand why and want a websites with flashy blinking graphics, tables and a lot of pictures. But, there are ways to influence their decision and integrating proper business website design with your own Web 2.0 style design techniques. After all, as a web designer it's not only your job to design the site, it's to make the client happy and that does involve some critical thinking and yes, even a little "sales" ability.
1. Use inspiration from other website designers who have nailed it. There are website designs that still make my jaw drop. Not because they're incredibly good, either. It's because I can truly see how they made the client happy but also integrated newer, pure CSS, XHTML compliant oozing with Web 2.0 style.
2. Show the client some of their competitors with the website design that is cleaner and more up to standards. Let them see for themselves why usability is important and why a cluttered (ugly) websites are not considered the norm.
To find inspiration for your Web 2.0 website design and to find some actual business website designs to show your potential clients check out: CSS Beauty Gallery
They have their top web designs separated by industry, so you can find actual business websites that are still showing off that up to date Web 2.0 style.
Also, check out Websitenabox.com if you would like a website design that meets these standards, your budget and your needs!
