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Imagine for a second that Mandy has a moderately successful online business. Her business is doing okay, but she wishes she could bring in more business and more sales. Mandy would like to expand, get bigger office space, and perhaps even some additional storage space for her shipping needs, but unfortunately, she doesn’t have the cash coming in to pay for these extras. Her online advertising and marketing programs have gone well, and they are bringing in more customers, but she want to take her business to the next level.

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Wide-scale use of the Internet is a fairly new phenomenon in today’s society, but already the technology has grown by leaps and bounds. Today’s Internet is quite different from the one surfed just fifteen short years ago. Today there’s much more content, customization, and use of broadband connections. What seemed nearly impossible fifteen years ago is now being realized because of emerging technology that allows people all over  the world to stream videos, view pictures, customize their homepages, and see only the news stories they want.

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Almost everyone has seen a website that was packed with too many images and information. The page has so many colorful images laid out that the visitor must scroll down for what seems like days in order to get to the bottom of the page. All of this information seems to be displayed without any organization whatsoever. Other sites don’t any design at all.

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If a user can’t get around a site easily, that user has absolutely no reason to stay. Poor navigation will reduce the number of visitors pretty severely and frustrate the users who do stay. Navigation is the system that the visitor uses to get from one place to the next on a website. Some examples of navigation structures are in-text links, left or right column navigation, top navigation, tabbed navigation, and even Flash navigation.

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For those readers with limited experience in website creation, here’s a recap:

1. Design the page or buy a design from somebody else. This is relatively simple to do. If you are good with computers and design, you can probably do this yourself in your favorite software or using your favorite online editing program. If not, you can buy design, and sometimes have designs for free, by downloading them from online. This would be the absolute easiest way for a beginner to get online. Just go to your favorite search engine and type “Web template” or “free website template” or something similar. Then you can find companies who sell good designs.

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Web 2.0 isn’t any one set of software programs or popular websites. Web 2.0 is actually a term coined by software experts to describe the next generation of software and web interfaces based online. As more and more users end up online, the web has changed to reflect the needs and wants of more people. The old generation of web applications reflected the types of people that were generally online, generally people who were already good with computers. In Web 2.0, the emphasis is more about being social and more user friendly. There are actually several hallmarks that indicate Web 2.0 applications. Here are a few characteristics that are part of the Web 2.0 movement:

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The word “blog” is a shortened form of the phrase “web log.” A blog is a website that uses an array of time-stamped and categorized “posts”, generally placed in date order, to allow users to read a wide variety of articles and other informational posts. Most Internet users are probably already familiar with many blogs already, or have at least heard about them. Google’s official blog is a free blog maintained by a free blogging site called Blogger, owned by Google, and is one of the most-read blogs on the Web. Clearly, just because a blog is simple and free to create doesn’t mean that blog can’t generate visitors.

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Another Web 2.0 opportunity comes through social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. These sites allow their users to interact with each other in many ways, either by sharing pictures, joining groups, sending private messages, and using other constantly-evolving applications. Networking sites are free, used by a lot of different people, and allow websites to market themselves or their product as they see fit. These sites can direct a lot of traffic through advertising, but free use of these sites is no guarantee for traffic, because the social networking audience is notoriously fickle.

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The popularity of wikis has grown enormously as more and more users realize the great potential of Wikis to bring people together and get them to communicate. The most famous wiki of all, Wikipedia, is not the only wiki, but just one site that is harnessing wiki software in a large way. Wikis are actually software applications accessible online that allow multiple users to read articles about specific topics. The wiki also allows users to change and edit those articles, assuming they are given permission to do so. In Wikipedia, nearly everyone has permission to edit articles.

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When the term “Web 2.0” was coined, the emphasis of the term wasn’t the Internet or even existing movements on the Internet, but more the software used online that would eventually drive the Web 2.0 movement. Without software, there would be no Web 2.0. New and innovative software is crucial for the development of more and better Web applications and new ideas that will draw in the interest of the Internet crowd and provide a fun, user-friendly, and social experience for anyone who wants to try.

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