Website Design Trends for 2010

Minimalism
Less is more and really has always been. There is beauty in simplicity!

Oversized Headers and Footers
The trend will continue as it did with the introduction of CSS2 and CSS3. Having large headers with beautiful imagery as a topic based header will continue this year. Oversized footers will also continue their trend started in 2009 the introduction of CSS2 and CSS3.

Layouts
Layouts will continue to have a magazine and newspaper feel due to the increased usage of blogs.

Designs for Augmented Reality and Mobile Websites
This is sizzling hot for 2010. App development for mobile along with mobile website design started last year and will continue to grow this year.

Mobile Phone Application Design and Development
All you have to do is look at all of the Android, iPhone and Blackberry apps to see how hot of a trend this is. There is no slowdown here for this year. This hot topic will continue to innovate!

Social Network Design & Development and API Development
These are also continuing hot industries that will continue to develop and innovate in 2010.