1 January 2018
Website development,2018,trends
Sabnam Thapa
The best thing about the internet is that it keeps evolving into something smarter and better. One of those ever-changing aspects of the internet is the website development.
These changes have pushed website development to another level. Take last year’s website development trends, for example. AngularJS pulled at the heartstrings of many front-end developers, Ruby on Rails for the quick website development, and the like.
While most of the website development trends are expected to follow the footsteps of last year, some of them are expected completely be new.
Let’s have a look at the upcoming anticipated website development trends for the year 2018.
According to a recent data published by Statista, the number of smartphone users worldwide is expected to cross 2 billion after the year 2017.
Because of the current surge in the e-commerce, mobile-based transactions and payments are in the boom. These two reasons have pushed the website development towards mobile-orientedness.
Not only that the upcoming websites will be responsive, but the designs will also be catered towards encouraging and increasing the mobile from to from user interactions and engagement.
In an article published by – e-marketer, the e-commerce industry is a trillion-dollar industry booming at about 7% each year. This implies that the e-commerce assisting website applications and features will also witness growth this year. One of those features is AI-powered chatbots. Almost every e-commerce nowadays has moved from the conventional "Call Us" button to “How can I help you?” chatbots. In fact, most of the websites, such as eBay, Bank of America, Uber and Pizza Hut have been using chatbots for improving the customer care service. The use of AI-powered chatbots is expected to show a significant growth this year.
Long gone the days when the users were kept up-to-date with the website’s activities with the help of passive methods like emails and SMS.
It has become easier now for the e-marketers to deliver important information to the users without having to spend much money because of the push notification.
This also increases the user engagement with the website, thereby increasing chances for the users to click on the link.
Although it has been quite a long time since JS has been in existence, it’s popularity has still been increasing in the front-end development and is supposed to keep going up in the following years even more.
That said, according to a data published by Smashing Magazine, the static sites have been gaining popularity more than ever. Sure, that they were how websites looked like during the dawn of websites. But, there were issues: they took large loading time and were vulnerable and difficult to create. Since they are much less easy and cheaper to build as compared to dynamic websites, they have grown in popularity. This is one of the reasons why JavaScript is gaining popularity.
There has always been a long run debate about the superiority of Angular framework over Node. However, 2017 has witnessed the significant popularity of Angular framework. With the features, such as improved speed, lessened view engine code, and the separate package for animations, Angular-4 has become even more popular among the developers.
Being open source and MVC pattern, PHP is very easy to use even to a novice developer which is why it has been growing in popularity since long and will continue to be so in 2018. With this object-oriented programming language, a developer can build a web application in the fastest way possible. This language is cheap, flexible and scalable and with the recent release of PHP 7, it has reduced old issues to a large extent. It also offers various frameworks out of which Laravel is gaining popularity. Due to the advantages, such as Homestead, database schema builder, and database query builder, Laravel stands out from the other PHP frameworks. Moreover, because of the release of Laravel 5.4, it has become even more fun to work with. Thus, the upcoming year will observe the popularity of PHP 7 with Laravel 5.4.
The mobile application has been moving towards the motion user interface. This design gives a number of perks: a well-organized look, distraction from the ongoing at the back-end, and polished experience.
Being an easy to use Sass, animating the UI becomes simpler even for the developers with little knowledge of JS and jQuery library.
This library was first brought in 2014 and has been gaining popularity since then.
This popularity is expected to grow even more in the upcoming year.
So, let’s wait and observe what the year 2018 will bring in website development.
Happy New Year 2018!!