75 The State of Web Design Trends: 2012
Purity theme
Building a site with a content management system (CMS) has become
a popular request for client sites, with 75% of respondents listing it.
Understanding how to build and customize themes is a vital tool in any
designer’s toolbox. One of our respondents notes,
“
I think it is becoming like print design, where many clients are
trying to save money and want to either set up their own site using
a template or have the capability to manage their own content. For
that reason, knowing how to customize a CMS is becoming more
and more important.
”
Contact form
Content management system
(WordPress, etc.)
Multimedia (photo gallery,
video, etc.)
API integration (Twitter,
Facebook, etc.)
Blog or news feed
e-Commerce system
Static landing page
Mobile compatibility
Flash animation
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
15.2%
20.9%
28.8%
34.7%
45.3%
47.1%
71.5%
75.4%
76.0%
