{"id":14,"date":"2005-02-20T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2005\/major-changes-in-the-world-of-web-design\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:04:05","slug":"major-changes-in-the-world-of-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2005\/major-changes-in-the-world-of-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs, CMS and website templates: Major Changes  in the world of web design."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The web design world is going through major changes, changes I think many web designers are just not aware of.<\/p>\n<p>It comes down to 3 things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Blogs\/CMS software:<\/strong> these are turn-key template driven web sites. This is not just a visual component &#8211; Blogs\/CMS systems have built-in functionality (&#8216;engines&#8217;) that makes maintaining a website trivial.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Web site templates:<\/strong> purely a design template, whereas Blogs and CMS offer both visual and functional aspects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pod Casting:<\/strong> the emergence of audio and soon video content on the web at levels never seen before.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These three developments I believe are changing the face of web design, in a way that we have not seen since the first web design software came out years ago. <\/p>\n<p>The days of <em>building websites from scratch will soon fade<\/em>, and become something very specialized &#8211; there are just too many advantages in using a CMS\/Blog or a website template. <\/p>\n<p><strong>THE POINT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a web designer, you should jump at this opportunity &#8211; begin to learn about how you can use web templates and Blogs\/CMS to build your own killer websites faster than ever before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The web design world is going through major changes, changes I think many web designers are just not aware of. It comes down to 3 things: Blogs\/CMS software: these are turn-key template driven web sites. This is not just a visual component &#8211; Blogs\/CMS systems have built-in functionality (&#8216;engines&#8217;) that makes maintaining a website trivial. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4745,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}