New trends are coming through and getting flourishing this year. Some of old trends are also joining the boom with new features and deeper developments. 2013 will surely be a great year of website designs since new trends are coming up with fascinating acceptance and enjoyment from the audience and the designers as well. Trends are about the aesthetic and artistic points applied in the layout and designs of websites. People love to get their eyes amazed, thus making these trends much hotter, resulting in various websites being built with trends in order to meet the demands from the customers.
Here is a list of some hot trends that will go outspread this year 2013. These intuitive trends will surely breathe a fresh new life into website designs.
Flat Design
Take a look at the Windows 8 by Microsoft. That is the flat design style. This trend is now taking its prime in websites designs as many sites and themes are built with flat color blocks. The buttons, functional menus, content blurbs are now in edgy blocks with appealing colors. This flat design offers great senses of elegance, professionalism and modernism.
CSS Transparency
You are now able to adjust the transparency of elements on your site. How cool is that? You can set the content areas a little transparent to see the background behind. You can set the buttons, functional widgets to get a bit of transparency to leave some fresh visual effect on the eyes of your visitors. This new trend will surely open a new taste in websites designs and some new ideas in website interaction.
Responsive Design
Responsive designs have been so flourishing in year 2012 that it is considered one of the most quickly outspread trends ever. This trend gives the sense of professionalism and comfort to the web admins and web visitors as well. People love to browse websites with responsive designs on their phones or tablets. The habit of using phones and tablets to go online instead of desktops and laptops has really been an issue for development recently, and responsive design is a good solution.
2013 will be seeing a new feature in the responsive design. It’s not just the website being able to fit into any screen size. It’s more about the attractive and interacting process of rearranging the site to match with new dimensions. CSS codes are used to build fluid and smooth transition of the designs. Try to open a new responsive website with this trend, try to adjust the view, change the size of windowpane, be amazed and enjoy the process.
Circle Elements
Somehow similar to the flat design trend. However, this trend features circle blocks and decoration all over your websites. You will be seeing circle menus, buttons, page numbers, textures and decoration, all in circles. This trend is catching up really fast and will surely go boom this year 2013. I have seen some websites built with this trend. They are amazing and inviting in looks. If you love to take up modern and active styles in website designing, circle element trend is there for you. This trend can be easily recognized in the best WordPress themes 2013. Some of the themes in this collection are deeply into this trend. You can also get some new ideas from this collection.
Full-screen Background Image
This trend is about taking a large image to cover all the background of your website. Full-screen background image is the point if this trend. This will impose a great visual impact on the eyes of visitors. Gone are the days of blank backgrounds or minimal-styles background with brief decoration and color appliance. The large background image is the key to new styles of captivating attention and catching the eyes of visitors. This trend works perfectly for websites about portfolios, photography, art, or any purpose that want to strike hard for a great visual attack.
