What characterizes a modern website?

[Jim_Westergren]

This is a research and placed on various forums on the Internet. The purpose is to gather information to improve n.nu.

I begin with what I already have found:

• Modern design is used.
• For HTML what is used is HTML5 or XHTML.
• Systems for blogging on the website with built-in RSS
• Instead of a guestbook modern comment systems are used such as Facebook comments or Disqus.
• A nice header image with possibly a slider
• For functions with javascript a modern library is used such as jQuery
• For images there is a lightbox feature to easily enlarge the images in a nice way
• Systems are in place to easily log into and easily modify and build the website without knowledge of HTML.
• On-page optimization for SEO already built with for example: clean URLs, headings, HTML navigation, XML sitemap, no dup content, etc.
• Use of CSS3, for example shadows in a good way.
• Instead of a visible counter on the page invisible advanced statistics such as Google Analytics or similar is used.
• A function for collecting subscribers and send out newsletters are in place
• The site is built in a way so that it loads quickly
• Flash is not used for content and preferably not at all
• The site works well with mobile devices (responsive CSS)
• The site uses social media to interact with the reader, for example like buttons for Facebook.

What else is there?

 

[hazelg]

Absolutely true and correct.

 

[Nodws]

- Big sliding images
- embedded fonts
- white space
- flexible displays
- location autodetect

etc etc