It is really complex to indicate the main features of modern web site, because web design is closer to art and can’t be described with clear definitions. However there are few criteria that up-to-date site should correspond to.

First: minimalism, simplicity and intuitive interface. Users visit your site to find specific information, and even if your site is made in the avant-garde style with all sorts of technical solutions and fashion victim, a visitor can hardly appreciate it if for finding the necessary information he needs to waste much time in dense forest of navigation.

Second: correct displaying of your site in most used browsers. New browsers support modern features of HTML5 and CSS3. However there are still Internet surfers who use old-school software, who unfortunately will inevitably turn out to be “overboard”

Now more and more websites are created in Web 2.0 style, i.e. when content of site can be published by visitors themselves or from other different resources. The main design feature of Web 2.0 is easy to use and friendly user interface.

Web 2.0 sites are bright and airy; use large fonts, soft shades, but bright colors for call to action items. Cool feature of Web 2.0 is rounded corners that presented by new version of CSS. Convenience, simplicity and comfort – these are the main characteristics of such sites. This trend is spreading more and more, so not just Web 2.0 sites performed in this way, but also classic corporate sites.

Design itself is not the point. For the modern site are more important functionality and quality of presented information. Today’s sites should be regularly updated, this way they have sections like news and blogs. In addition the contents of the site should be well optimized for search engines.

Modern websites are already far ahead of its predecessors in both design and functionality. However current site – it is not one that is packed with all kinds of novelties and overloaded with heavy graphics – it is a site where the user is convenient and easy to use.