Blogs, CMS and website templates: Major Changes in the world of web design.
February 20, 2005
The web design world is going through major changes, changes I think many web designers are just not aware of.
It comes down to 3 things:
- Blogs/CMS software: these are turn-key template driven web sites. This is not just a visual component – Blogs/CMS systems have built-in functionality (‘engines’) that makes maintaining a website trivial.
- Web site templates: purely a design template, whereas Blogs and CMS offer both visual and functional aspects.
- Pod Casting: the emergence of audio and soon video content on the web at levels never seen before.
These three developments I believe are changing the face of web design, in a way that we have not seen since the first web design software came out years ago.
The days of building websites from scratch will soon fade, and become something very specialized – there are just too many advantages in using a CMS/Blog or a website template.
THE POINT:
As a web designer, you should jump at this opportunity – begin to learn about how you can use web templates and Blogs/CMS to build your own killer websites faster than ever before.
