6 Web Design Trends To Follow Right Now
Web design is constantly evolving. Nowadays websites not only have way more advanced functionalities than 10 years, but they also look way different. In fact, one of the biggest mistakes in web design is not following the latest trends. You end up with an outdated website that looks ridiculous and visitors just don’t like it.
So what are the key web design trends that you need to follow now if you want your website to look modern?
Big background images
This surely isn’t a brand new trend, but we bet it will still be relevant in the next few years. Instead of using a color background or some texture, you can use a high-resolution image or a photography. This trend is useful especially for portfolios and landing pages, but it can also be applied to a corporate web page. If you want to make your design even more beautiful, you can play a little bit with your background image. For example, you can blur it or add some other cool effect.
Example design:
How to do it in Oxxy?
First you need to go to the Style editor of your page. On the bottom you will find the Entire background section. From there you can change the background of your entire webpage. Select image instead of color, upload one or use one of the images we offer and you will have a great big image background website.
Ghost buttons
Ghost buttons are another big trend now. In fact, they are just simple buttons, but the specific is that they are transparent (or almost transparent in some cases) and have simple shapes (i.e a rectangular). Usually, they also have a very thin line for a border. When you hover them with you mouse pointer, the button changes its style.
Example design:
How to do it in Oxxy?
First you need to a button from the elements’ bar. After that go to its style editor, click on background and lower the transparency as much as you like. If you make it at 0, your button will be fully transparent. In fact, this is enough to have a ghost button, but you can play with it a little bit more from the style editor. Adjust the border, change the shape and do not forget to apply a cool hover effect.
Feature lists with icons
Most corporate websites include a feature list where visitors can view little details about what the company offers. Usually, the feature list consists of several short descriptions. Styling each of them with a relevant icon not only looks great, but it also makes it easier for your visitors to orientate themselves.
Example design:
How to do it in Oxxy?
Have your content for each feature ready. After that create a new text element for each feature. Add the text and arrange them side by side. Then you will need to download icons from the web and upload them into our Media Library. You can find a nice set with plenty of icons here http://modernuiicons.com/. Then put each icon over each piece of text you will have your icons feature list ready.
Scrolling instead of clicking
Which one is easier for users – scrolling or clicking? If your answer is scrolling, you are right! In the recent year user behavior has changed so much that visitors of a webpage are way more likely to scroll to the end of it than to click on a link to another page. That led to the rise of the single page websites where all the content is on a single page and it’s divided into different sections. Users just need to scroll down to see it without clicking on any links.
Example design:
Reservation.Tools
How to do it in Oxxy?
You just need to make your webpage longer by resizing the content area. Each of your pages has three horizontal lines that are visible only in the editor. The first one indicates the end of the header and by moving it up or down you adjust the size of your header. The second line is at the end of the content are and the beginning of the footer. When you drag it you resize the content area. The third line does the same with the footer. For the purpose of making a long scrolling website you need to resize the content area.
Less is more
In web design, the expression less is more refers to minimalist web design. The term applies to webpages that are simple and have very few elements on them. Best minimalist web designs tend to have a very basic layout – not many colors, texts or textures and just to the focal point.
The reason why minimalist web design has become a big trend is again the changing user behavior. With the abundance of web resources, visitors spend less time on websites. That is why we find it easier to orientate ourselves on site with fewer elements and distractions. If the focal point of the website isn’t clear within a few seconds, we just close it and move to the next one. So when you start you next project, do not forget this simple truth: Simplicity is the new complexity.
Example design:
Slide galleries
Using a slide gallery is a smarter way of presenting images than just putting them on your pages as it makes them more dynamic and beautiful. There are plenty of ways to integrate a slide gallery on your website. You can make it full screen if you want it to be the focal point of your page.
Example design:
How to do it in Oxxy?
Setting up a slide gallery in Oxxy takes just a few seconds. You just need to add it from the elements’ toolbar. Drag it to the desired place and resize it. After that, you need to open its settings and upload your own photos from the Media Library. You can select the animation interval depending on how fast you want your images to change.
