The future of web design trend is surely designing for mobile community as more and more netizens are accessing through the mobile sites. So the next big thing is designing for mobile sites. so the future of web design trends seems to be the mobile sites.

I don't see this as a "trend" but more as a "necessity".

 

A website is still a website at the end of the day but with the rise of Smart Phones (<3 my iPhone).

 

It's definately something that needs to be taken into consideration.

 

However the sheer amount of different browsers/rules makes this a definate Pain in the Ass

I'm currently working on my first website geared towards a hand held device and i have to say it's not that difficult. It's much harder to make a website look good in across all browser/screen resolutions then it is in the mobile world.

 

http://ready.mobi/ has been a life saver.

the good thing about smart phones is they tend to render websites as good as any desktop browser.

all my sites bar one (that uses a lot of jquery) run perfectly fine on my HTC Hero, also looking good on my ageing 4 year old TYTN II

 

its going to be impossible to render a website beautifully on all mobile devices, but I think after a year or two we will be down to a handful anyway (iphone, android, winmob) all of which come with default browsers that all run websites pretty well already so we wont have to worry about it too much

I have just launched a web site www.wapnote.com which make it easy to build and share mobile internet sites.

 

All feedback is appreciated!

 

Cheers.

its going to be impossible to render a website beautifully on all mobile devices, but I think after a year or two we will be down to a handful anyway (iphone, android, winmob) all of which come with default browsers that all run websites pretty well already so we wont have to worry about it too much

 

Agreed, this will be irrelevant very soon. Mobile websites are going to die as everyone gets smartphones and moves away from these awkward mobile sites. One thing that may catch on is specialist app style sites though. So if the site detects an iPhone browser it redirects to a site that looks like a native iPhone app and the same for android and Windows Phone.

Agreed, this will be irrelevant very soon. Mobile websites are going to die as everyone gets smartphones and moves away from these awkward mobile sites. One thing that may catch on is specialist app style sites though. So if the site detects an iPhone browser it redirects to a site that looks like a native iPhone app and the same for android and Windows Phone.

 

There's quite an interesting article in .net this month about using jqtouch to 'appify' your site.

Certainly worth a read

There's quite an interesting article in .net this month about using jqtouch to 'appify' your site.

Thanks for the link - I might get the magazine for once in my life to read the article.

 

'Appifying' (I love that word!) your site is going to become easier and easier though it might become the new style (so the use of trend in the original post is actually in a way correct). This will be stressed by the massively growing regeneration of the tablet market. Read this on Gizmodo today and it just backups my point that we as designers and developers will have to design for this touchscreen market as well as the traditional fashion, implementing swipe and other gestures.

 

Could we be seeing a revival in browser redirection on sites to accommodate for everyones needs separately or will we have to all find clever ways of implementing technology both for traditional computers and tablets seamlessly. The next couple of years are going to be exciting.

There's quite an interesting article in .net this month about using jqtouch to 'appify' your site.

Certainly worth a read

 

Ya, I read this a couple of days ago. Very interesting.

I dunno man, I'm not convinced it's here yet - for two reasons.

 

1: network saturation - mobile broadband is gash in the UK anywhere outside of London.

2: screen size... traditionally the web is pretty text heavy. I can see that apps and mobile sites will be handy, but I can't see the regular web being superceded on account of a trade off between the phone size and the medium it's trying to display. It's a bit like the whole mobile DVD player - it's counter intuitive to have a high def medium played on a small screen.

 

I think the mobile web has it's place, but I don't think it's going to be completely a-may-zing. Apps (like Layar) on the other hand, are a genuine marvel.