Web development trends for businesses

With trends in web development, there’s been a considerable boost in support for new, exhilarating web technologies. This evolution will enable developers to build faster apps which perform consistently across all devices. Web development has always been a matter of great concern for marketers since; your website is the face of your business which has to be more user-friendly and innovative enough to grab the attention of your target audience. With trends emerging in the industry, it’s important to follow the air.

So, here are some top trends in the web development for businesses, which can improve the face of your business with a professional approach:

1. 3D web shenanigans

There are a lot of quick developers, who’re already taking advantage of the 3D capabilities of modern browsers. There would be an increase in support for CSS3 3D transform, a lightweight, mobile-friendly method of 3D graphic representation.

2. The HTML5 JavaScript API

HTML5 being a very popular web development platform has been integrated with some better APIs in the HTML 5 JavaScript spec, which are listed below:

Web Storage acts as better alternative to cookies, as data can now be stored locally on the user’s browser. This will be useful in mobile apps as it allows simple offline storage of client data.

Web Workers allow numerous complex JavaScript tasks to be performed altogether, without affecting the performance. Workers will be one of the basic building blocks for every mobile web app determined to perform like a native app.

WebSockets are an exciting, faster alternative to AJAX for real-time communication.

Application Cache is another dominant feature which will allow web apps to perform more like native apps by caching the whole app for offline use.

These are some of the latest features which offer all kinds of amazing possibilities. They have the potential to provide similar power and potential to the web apps like the native apps.

3. The rise of JavaScript and client-side web apps

JavaScript is the major necessity for web development and it is being used as the major platform for app development. There are many benefits in building an app entirely using client-side technologies due to the following reasons:

• Developers don’t need to struggle in learning an entirely new language.
• Deployment is far more easier as the app can be installed on any server as a set of static pages
• Definitely there’s a difference between development on the client-side, and server-side frameworks and certainly they aren’t going away soon, but one should see an emerging tendency for future small-to-medium sized apps to run solely on the client-side.
• JavaScript alternatives will become tremendously popular and the developers of tomorrow will likely be fluent in one or the other.

4. The evolution of the front-end framework

There’s another evolution in web development which is soon going to be popular and, that is front-end development stack. This would possibly include:

• The front-end framework of choice (Bootstrap or Foundation)
• Testing server
• Task-runner
• Dependency management
• Faultless integration with any platform
• Easy operation through command line or GUI

5. Wider use of HTML5 video

When you visit any website, there’s almost always a video – and 99% of the time it’s rendered from YouTube or Vimeo. Following are the reasons for its popularity:

• YouTube and Vimeo host the videos so that you don’t have to worry about bandwidth or storage
• The correct video format is loaded with regard to user’s browser request, alleviating any compatibility issues
• It’s really easy to upload

6. Getting creative with cookies

After the recent EU laws have been put into practice, all the European organizations with websites must now report their users that the site is using cookies and ask the user’s permission to use them. The most challenging task for the web developers is opting for a creative, unobtrusive method of conveying this message.

The challenge would help in keeping users on the site, providing them an option of finding more information on cookies and giving them a way-out if they don’t want to visit a site which uses cookies.

A step further would be empowering the user to sort through the cookies and tell them clearly what each cookie is doing, allowing them to enable/disable any of the ones on your site.

7. Drag and drop everything

HTML5 user interfaces are revolutionized by drag and drop. There’s further yet to come out of it:

• Better touch device support for drag-and-drop interfaces
• More interactive info-graphics with drag-and-drop resources
• More sites and apps enabling users to customize the layout with drag-and-drop

8. Responsive design becoming mandatory

Users appreciate websites and apps with responsive design which is a mandate for every industry. With frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation being used by every developer, there’s no excuse for not using a responsive design for your website.

9. Mobile web apps which behave and perform like native apps

With the advent of some amazing new technologies being used, web developers should be able to build sites and apps with the following traits:

• Designand functionality which is responsive to any device size and input method
• Regular support for touchand gestures
• Offline competence for users on flaky mobile broadband connections
• Low processor demand, and as such, lower battery power usage
• Extremely fast loading speed and task performance

With such an exemplary trend in web development, there is a good scope for marketers for promoting their business.