| One thing we have all learned about the modern age | | | | As is always the case with both evolution and artistic |
| is that innovation is a continuous process, akin to | | | | innovation, there will be some experiments that do |
| evolution. Of course, the most current evolution | | | | not work, some adaptations that die out, some |
| models suggest that there are long periods of gradual | | | | trends that lead nowhere and some people who will |
| change interspersed with short, dramatic advances. | | | | not be able to keep all of the foregoing straight. The |
| (It is called the theory of punctuated equilibrium if | | | | trends that get traction, that help the most people in |
| you are interested). We seem, as we prepare to | | | | the best way, will develop and continue evolving, and |
| enter the second decade of the 21st century, to be | | | | Web designers will evolve along with them. Other |
| in one of those punctuated places right now, as hot | | | | trends will die out (we hope) but can still become |
| new Web design trends are pushing the technology | | | | part of a different sort of innovation when combined |
| and techniques to their limits. | | | | with other ideas. It's a melting pot out there. |