Anyone who wants to understand Web 2.0 design must first be familiar with what Web 2.0 means. The phrase stands for the supposed second generation of the web that focuses on collaboration and sharing of information among users.
What used to be one-way highways of the old web is now replaced by a community-driven world of Web 2.0.
The term Web 2.0 was first used in 2004 during the OReilly Media Web 2.0 conference. This suggested a change on how developers and users use the web.
Some of the things related to Web 2.0 include blogs, RSS (really simple syndication) feeds, social bookmarking websites and the like.
All of them share the common factors of having interactivity and communication between the website owner and the visitors, as well as among the visitors themselves.
The so-called Web 2.0 encompasses the back and front end of websites. However, to the average users, the changes are most evident on what they actually see and use on the websites that they visit.
For example, for Ajax-based applications, what they see are the updating of data on the page without actually refreshing the entire page, which was the technique...