An Introduction to Web 2.0

It’s the trend for Web 2.0, were most of the people asking for the web 2.0 styles in their website. Let us see the core concept of the current technology that has been taken place in the Web 2.0. It is basically a web design and web development technique that not only provides facility for developing interactive informative sharing sites, but also empowered the strong foundations to collaborate in a web environment. Web 2.0 also provides the User-Centered Design (UCD) facility that shows the attention for the end user of the interface at each stage of the designing process. Some examples of the Web 2.0 are web related communities, software that support interoperable interactions with network, social-networking sites, web applications, video-sharing sites, blogs etc.

Web 2.0 is basically a process of integrating and exhibiting several components of a web based system. It is not the difficult thing to handle the Web 2.0 technology in developing a website that meets the requirements of the current technology. This also permits the users to interact with each other and update the content for the certain websites. But this is not present in the non-interactive websites that restricted the users to view only the information provided to them. Even the web 2.0 represent as the upgraded technology in the World Wide Web but it only has the cumulative changes for the developers to use its applications.

The special features and characteristics are presented more in the Web 2.0 that do not restrict their users to retrieve the information, but also allows them to share their information while uploading photos and updating profiles. Users can have the rights to own the data on the Web 2.0 site and use it and control their data for their own experience. Most of the Web 2.0 website infrastructure allows the users to participate with them in their website and also enable them to add contents in websites. There are also some websites available that get the information from the visitor and the changes can be done only in the site by the website owners. This gives the more contrast than the traditional web technology websites.

The websites of Web 2.0 will often provide the rich features like convenient interface based on XML (Ajax) and Asynchronous JavaScript, client side cooperatively, for the development and deployment of rich internet applications based on the Adobe Flash and even flex. Web 2.0 can be also stated as “participatory web” and information source of the web.