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Asked: 2026-05-28T04:51:30+00:00

I’m not sure that I’m using the correct language here so I will give

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I’m not sure that I’m using the correct language here so I will give some examples of web sites which I believe have ‘Web 2.0’look and feel

https://www.yammer.com/

http://www.heroku.com/

https://foursquare.com/

http://24sevenoffice.com/

http://www.formassembly.com

They all have big text, big buttons, plus very slick and tasteful AJAX/CSS. My question is how is this look and feel assembled? Some possible ideas I have had:

. Underlying library such as jQuery/GWT

. Handled by web framework such as Rails/Django

. Coded completely from scratch

To me all the sites have sufficient similarity that there does seem to be some type of underlying common mechanism. The reason I’m asking is that as a developer I’m wondering if I can assemble a Web 2.0 looking site using some type of tool kit.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There are common frameworks and tools to help with the development, sure. You mention two of them. However, a tool alone isn’t going to do it. Not unless you just entirely conform to some kind of brown-and-serve framework. (I don’t know of any off-hand.)

    Good look and feel comes from good UI/UX design. I’ll bet that each of those example sites you gave has a talented graphic designer behind it (either on staff or contracted for making the site) who is proud of their creative work, and simply used some tools to help facilitate that work.

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