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For along time this has been bugging me now, and i know i will get alot of backlash from this thread, but despite peoples views on Web 2.0 im correct in what im about to say.
The main problem is, there is no official meaning set to the word or term Web 2.0. For example if you look up CSS 2.0 you will find straight away many links explaining what it is, how it works, and if ever an argument were to break out on the topic of CSS 2.0 you would send them over to W3C.org and tell them to read the facts, but you cannot do that with Web 2.0, because there is no meaning for it.
People are using it to explain the modern techniques of Web and Online media design, but everyone has different views on the term Web 2.0, the term is whatever you want it to be or percive it to be.
A client (a few actually) recently asked me to do them a CSS layout which was Web 2.0, i instantly replyed and said, what is your perseption on Web 2.0? The client replyed and said:
'Errrm, something modern'
Why not say modern in the first place, he didnt even want a flashy, gimickey website, so first of all there was no need to say Web 2.0. Second of all, every client that asks me for a Web 2.0 design will always get an email back asking for an in depth description of what they want, which they could have done in the first place.
What Defines Web 2.0 and Web 1.0?
Who defines the rules? Who can chose wether something is Web 1.0 or Web 2.0, who said this? What organisation invented this term and rules websites?
Nobody!
Some people say Old looking sites are Web 1.0 and new sites are Web 2.0, but whats the sites that are inbetween? Or the sites that are way to hi-tech for its time?
Whats ebay? Whats SpeedTest.net? What Google? and who decides all this.
It seem irrelivent to use the word or term when it has no official meaning to to it. So client, i recommend you dont use the term, because every designer in the office where i work will not translate the term Web 2.0 into what you 'Think' it means. Whoever can is a great mind reader.
For along time this has been bugging me now, and i know i will get alot of backlash from this thread, but despite peoples views on Web 2.0 im correct in what im about to say.
The main problem is, there is no official meaning set to the word or term Web 2.0. For example if you look up CSS 2.0 you will find straight away many links explaining what it is, how it works, and if ever an argument were to break out on the topic of CSS 2.0 you would send them over to W3C.org and tell them to read the facts, but you cannot do that with Web 2.0, because there is no meaning for it.
People are using it to explain the modern techniques of Web and Online media design, but everyone has different views on the term Web 2.0, the term is whatever you want it to be or percive it to be.
A client (a few actually) recently asked me to do them a CSS layout which was Web 2.0, i instantly replyed and said, what is your perseption on Web 2.0? The client replyed and said:
'Errrm, something modern'
Why not say modern in the first place, he didnt even want a flashy, gimickey website, so first of all there was no need to say Web 2.0. Second of all, every client that asks me for a Web 2.0 design will always get an email back asking for an in depth description of what they want, which they could have done in the first place.
What Defines Web 2.0 and Web 1.0?
Who defines the rules? Who can chose wether something is Web 1.0 or Web 2.0, who said this? What organisation invented this term and rules websites?
Nobody!
Some people say Old looking sites are Web 1.0 and new sites are Web 2.0, but whats the sites that are inbetween? Or the sites that are way to hi-tech for its time?
Whats ebay? Whats SpeedTest.net? What Google? and who decides all this.
It seem irrelivent to use the word or term when it has no official meaning to to it. So client, i recommend you dont use the term, because every designer in the office where i work will not translate the term Web 2.0 into what you 'Think' it means. Whoever can is a great mind reader.
