In the last decade we witnessed new emergences in the world wide web. This new emergence not only marked newer and more innovative applications of the internet and its contents, it also opened up a whole new galaxy of trendy, stylish and useful designs.

And as the decade turns, I see the web design community predicting newer trends in the beginning of 'the teens'.

I have assessed other opinions and am happy to present my predictions for popular design trends for 2010 and beyond:

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Because no significant language has come to the fore in the last decade, while many changes have occurred on the web during that time. Google are known to prefer Python and Javascript, therefore Go is expected to resemble a combination of both, as well as its own flavour.

The video below is a one-hour long Google introduction on Go Programming Language:

Please click here for an online tutorial for the Go Programming Language!

This blog is a guide to help assist you to rise in Google rankings. Google is the search engine we will feature as it owns more than 90% of the Australian search engine market.

1. A more than 1000% growth of Twitter over Facebook causes different reactions; some are happy to know that over 800,000 Aussies are now active on Twitter, while other consider this a typical figure for the later-released Twitter, which is still way behind the 6,000,000 Australian users of Facebook.
   
   
2. While the first finding's reasons can be argued, the next finding cannot. That internet usage in Australia is growing rapidly. 75% of adults use social networks in Australia. Australia has over 400,000 bloggers. People spent on average 8.9 hours per week (or 1.5 days a month) using the web, which is up 27% compared to previous years - significantly, this is more time than Australians spent reading print media, watching movies, or playing video games.

There is a sudden surge in demand for a beautifully made websites. Users don't want poor presentations anymore; they all like something else, something new to their eyes because they have become web-sophisticated. With the advent of css 3, almost any kind of design is now possible in web. It's like photoshopping your way to the world wide web.

True Beauty Comes From The Inside

Informed web designers and business owners alike know that design is vital to a successful website, and its beauty must go far beyond looks. While design needs to support a company's brand positioning, it must also effectively inform, communicate and provide positive experiences.

Recently, I used a tool called PhoneGap, which combines a focus on pure JavaScript and HTML for phones.

However, in the effort to have the ‘coolest' website layout design, website owners tend to forget to whom they are creating their website for: their target audience.

If you feel the same way as millions of other geeks in the world, there's only one person in the entire universe that has to be your friend; Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man.

As the head of Stark Industries, he commands a fleet of engineers and scientists to develop the ultra-cool defence and ammunition systems that can literally "blow" enemies away. As a side project, he developed this ultra cool "hot rod red and yellow" inspired armour that wreaks havoc anywhere and to anyone he wishes. In short, the perfect war armour.

For this reason, it is important that when you are typing content for your website, you consider Google and other search engines as much as your customer, who will eventually read it.

Here are my top 3 tips to consider when typing copy for your website:

A page for each keyword

It may seem an attractive proposition to litter your Homepage, or Services page, with all your important keywords.

This will only confuse search engine spiders. It is important to give each of your keywords their own page, and by showing these keywords such respect, you will encourage search engines like Google to do likewise.

Web typography deals with the line-height, text-spacing and colour, which are all text properties. Font styles and usage will greatly affect the design of a website as a whole. It can be boring or exciting.

There are still advancements in web typography, including using the image replacement technique. Using css, some use images rather than web type fonts. It enhances someone's site significantly. Of course the negative of this option is that text within images are not readable by search engines.

Regardless, good old web type fonts are best for corporate websites after a clean look.

With fonts like Arial and Times New Roman considered "default" fonts for some, there are other alternative fonts that web designers should consider. Here are my Top 5 (in no particular order):

Recently I blogged about Twitter. That despite Facebook being the best social networking ticket for individuals, the benefits of Twitter far outweigh those of Facebook when it comes to business.

The chief reason is that while Facebook pages are private to non-members, Twitter pages are public. Both are very popular websites, but by being public, there is greater chance your business will be exposed by Twitter to a wide audience.

Further, a link to your business website, blog, etc posted on Twitter, and clicked through from Twitter, will win you kudos with search engines like Google and Bing.

Here are my top 5 tips to get you and your business tweeting effectively:

Unlike Microsoft, they've made it open-source and made it clear that anyone will be welcome to run it, even on their own servers and change it however they like.

Perhaps making money for Google is no longer their top priority, but here's guessing that there's a revenue stream in there somewhere.

What are Waves? While there's no simple answer, it's a combination of instant messaging and email with differences. The following are some I noted from the conference demo.

With Google's latest and probably greatest product - Google Wave - I think I've got my answer.

Google Wave consolidates the most important internet communication technologies into one simple interface. You can do everything from simple messaging to complex simultaneous wiki-type editing.

And wow it did as the impressive engineers employed by Google presented the beauty of the newly-developed Google Wave; the technology that is best described as e-mail for the 21st Century. How?

Google Wave is a collaboration of all available internet communication.

Google Wave was announced at the Google I/O developer conference last week. It was developed using the Google web development kit. Think of it as something so cool that it will blow you away.

Imagine you can chat, tweet, collaborate all at the same time in real time, with a click of a button.

That is the power of Google Wave. A revolutionary product and service all rolled into one.

Google Wave removes the difficulties in communicating with others.

It helps the user see real time changes in the browser window, it allows for the real-time checking and correcting of grammar and spelling, and it facilitates chatting and email in the one screen. Google Wave can translate from and to 40 languages to allow for better communication and expression.

As written in my personal blog review of Google Wave, Google Wave collaborates all modes of internet communication into one common 'inbox'. These modes include email, instant messaging, blogging, tweeting, networking, etc.

As far as its methods... Google Wave allows you to do the above using web-exclusive technologies which allow for the live transfer of this data, the use of drag-and-drop for easy-adding, etc.

Most impressive is that it is 'open source', with Google inviting unlimited developers like my team at KayWeb Sydney to develop extensions which will continue to improve Google Wave for users.

Please put 1hr 20 minutes aside and watch the following video. This is an excellent demo led by Rasmussen, who also helped buit Google Maps, himself at the Google IO developer conference.

Since that blog, Microsoft has released a video previewing the features of Bing, which they are pinning their hopes on to drift internet searchers to this engine. Click here to see video.

Despite this clever marketing, my opinion - as well as those of other search engine experts - remains unchanged.

Working at home kills your creativity.

My work habits and environment have a big influence on my work. So I’m going to talk about my work environment first.

Being a full-time designer, I get to work at the office and surf the web for the next big thing. Personally, I find it very boring working at home. I can lose my focus and concentration on the design I'm doing. To think about it, how can you find new ideas if you are constantly facing your work and computer.

Yes, you can browse the web or CSS gallery sites such as Best Web Gallery to find inspiration. But since my work is web design, I also prefer to find inspiration offline (this way I can avoid being overly inspired by other websites).

It's easy to get complacent while listening to the large organisations that shared some of their secrets. Our focus, however, is on how small to medium-sized businesses can take advantage of this technology. The main themes: mobile presence, SEO-ing sites and usability.

Especially for retailers, the location-aware capabilities of the iPhone and other mobiles are being utilised to attract customers already away from home. This often takes the form of special pages for mobile, and participating in directories where for mobile, google is not the only viable engine.

The following is my video overview from the Darling Harbour Exhibition Centre in Sydney.

The Web Forward conference is something I am particularly looking forward to. Last year was good, but this year General Manager of Google Australia and New Zealand; Mr. Karim Temsamami will address delegates, and is a real 'ticket' for the organisers.

I have decided to start another blog on the side - my personal Haig Kayserian Blog.

Where the hugely mainstream Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the act of generating traffic to your websites through search engines like Google, Social Media Optimisation is basically the act of generating traffic for your website through social media applications like Facebook and Blogs.

Among the services we provide at KayWeb, we act as internet business consultants for clients and potential clients with ideas they hope will be 'as big as Google' or 'as big as Facebook'. The enquiries by this brand of internet services consumer have increased 10-fold over the last six months.

Facebook currently has 175 million registered users, who log in and view things others in their network decide to share - including photos, videos and dialogue with others they are connected to.

Among the successes of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his team of tech geeks have been their ability to educate the masses on certain web technologies. We web developers and marketers have been trying to add the acronym 'app', short for WEB APPLICATION (aka web software), into the dictionaries of public and business for many years now, and Facebook has managed to do this seamlessly.

CSS can be used to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation in a web page. It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written in CSS). This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control presentation characteristics, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design). CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on Braille-based, tactile devices. CSS also allows authors to move much of that information to a separate stylesheet resulting in considerably simpler HTML markup.

Anti-virus software maker Trend Micro has confirmed that the said 'hole' helps criminals trick you and I into entering websites that contain code which can steal our passwords, as well as more serious information such as financials.

The slump can bring about frustration about a project, and now, with quite a number of years in the web design game, I thought I would share my experiences with slumps and techniques I use to overcome them.

Read on to learn how to launch a second instance of Apache in order for other websites to not be effected in the case of a crash.

This may seem only logical with Christmas around the corner, however a deeper analysis shows that the economic doom and gloom has made people realise that online is the best place to find a bargain.

The decision to award www.barackobama.com the gong for 'Better Website' was made by 110 internet website experts, who sit on the Web Marketing Association's WebAward judging panel. And the fact that this same crew voted for Obama's website as 'better than Hillary Clinton's' during the Democratic primaries, and Obama ended up defeating Clinton, could mean the same path is set for November 4.

Let's take a closer look at both barackobama.com and johnmccain.com...

But what's so good about GMail? Well, consider just a few of it's key features...

My personal tests of Chrome have been extremely positive, considering it is its VERSION 1 release. Google has again embraced the advantages of open source web development to deliver a product in a rare segment of the web they haven't yet cracked.

find . -name '*.txt' -print0 |xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g'

*.txt - files to find

find - pattern to find

replace - replace found pattern

I’ve seen this mistake many times, where people put up a big banner image and a link "Click here to enter" on their homepage. The worst case — the "enter" link is embedded in the Flash object, which makes it impossible for the search engine spiders to follow the link.

This is fine if you don’t care about what a search engine knows about your site; otherwise you’re making a BIG mistake. Your homepage is most likely your website’s highest ranking page, thus is crawled most frequently by spiders. Your internal pages will not appear in the search engine index without the proper linking structure to internal pages for the spider to follow. Your homepage should include (at minimum) target keywords and links to important pages.

You may have heard terms like CSS, Strong Tags, Titles, URLs, Meta Tags, etc without really understanding them. The key is not for you to understand them, but for you to make sure your web designers know them... and more importantly, use them!