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Originality: Stepping out of the box

Originality: Stepping out of the box

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Originality: Stepping out of the box

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- [Instructor] For this lesson, we'll examine originality and stepping out of the box of conventional design. As technology changes the way we design and build websites, we must continually adapt and then learn to express ourselves creatively in new ways. Trends will always come and go in web design. What's popular this year will most likely not be the trend in a few years in the future. Take, for example, the popular styles of websites back in the late '90s and early 2000s. What was trendy then, were crazy background patterns, flashing animations, and super bright colors. Here's a few examples. Angelfire backgrounds, super bright backgrounds, super bright backgrounds, or super simple layouts. Other trends have been popular in web design over the years. Remember Flash websites which took forever to load and those long tedious Flash intros with sound that everyone had on their homepage? (electronic dance music) How often did you click Skip, if the Flash even had that option?…

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