What is Web 2.0? Is it a new technology? The latest version of the Internet? Web 2.0 is neither, rather it's a concept, an approach to developing web solutions that lays emphasis on active participation and interaction among people. The idea is to allow people to become active contributors to websites.

Web 2.0 is an outcome of an open source community efforts to emerge as a new business trend where business can take a new shape for all its users. It is a term coined by O'Reilly Media Vice President Dale Dougherty to emphasis a post-dot-com generation of sites and services that use the web as a platform.


The Web 2.0 has introduced innovation to design in the form of rounded corners, pastel colors, 3D embossed shiny buttons, floor reflections and large text captions and many, a designer have quickly adopted and made theirs this new simpler, more visually impactful and highly intelligible 2.0 technique.

Web 2.0 is the latest trend in design and development appearing transversely a flood of innovative websites. Designing for the web, today requires leveraging knowledge and well-tested design principles while escalating the amount of interaction and "social" components accessible to the users.