Previously, business executives were not comfortable of conducting online meetings. Reason being that initial meeting services were just not up to the mark. Users faced bad streaming quality, lack of any presentation features, non-existence of proper collaboration between attendees and time consuming meeting setup.

Fortunately, web conferencing technology has made dramatic improvements from where it was once when it first appeared in the market. These enhancements and improvements have greatly helped to increase web conferencing popularity in corporate environment. It has also made it the next best solution to face-to-face meetings. Today, web conferencing companies offer flexibility and cost savings that allows companies to increase their operational productivity and reduce overhead expenditures. Countless number of business executives are opting for online meeting as it provides high-quality communication, instant collaboration and flexibility to spend time in the location of their choice.

Let us see the top 5 features to be thankful for:

#1: Streamlined & Easy Meeting Setup

Meeting organizer can schedule and invite attendees to join web conference with 1-click setup. Meeting notification can also be shared on participants’ Outlook or Lotus Notes calendar.

#2: Dial-out

Leading web conferencing provider such as GoToMeeting has made setting up & joining a meeting extremely easy. Subsequent to clicking on the URL to join, attendees are prompted for their secure username and password. Once details are confirmed, participants get connected to the meeting.

#3: Documents and desktop sharing

Whether you are presenting in a meeting, taking down notes or collaborating on a document, web conferences’ collaboration & annotation tools helps you to do your work effectively. Its collaboration tools help attendees to transfer documents amongst themselves; also the presentation tools add upon visual cues to the meeting. Many solutions also offer the ability to pass control of the meeting or even your desktop to another attendee.

#4: Validate your audience

Organizer has privilege to allow only legit attendees to join the conference. Whether you are organizing an audio conference call or a web conference, your attendees must confirm their authenticity by entering a secure username and password. Also, there are multiple features that allow organizer to know who has joined the conference and if required their connection can be disconnected.

#5: Mute attendees

If you are familiar with video conferencing calls, chances are that you have experienced a call where there was an attendee with such a distracting background noise that it made almost impossible to concentrate on the meeting agenda. With the facility of muting the attendees, organizer can easily avoid any inconvenience and keep your participants engaged in the meeting.

Because of its advanced features and compatibility, many companies are switching to the HTML 5 platform. Some of the giant companies include Facebook, Google, and Apple. HTML 5 makes media, especially video to run smoothly on various browsers without messing up with plugins. It also adds tags to some components including headers, footers, sections, captions, and figures so the browser can easily display multi-page documents. HTML 5 is fully interactive and runs effectively on any browsers and platform which includes smart phones, e-readers, laptops, tablets or desktop computers.

HTML 5 is not only excellent in content display. It also offers superb animation and other essential technology to achieve quality gaming. It also allows local storage for data such as settings, caches, and databases without interruptions.

You can easily create a virtual 3D environment with the use of a built-in 3D version which uses a language called WebGL that can be simply implemented in the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit).

Because of HTML 5, drag and drop feature has never been that easy. You can easily drag files from your desktop to the browser or vice versa. There are various featured capabilities offered in mobile platforms as well. A geo-location data is standardized and comes with a new input type for speech rather than a traditional textbox.

According to Facebook CTO, Bret Taylor “Over the long term, people in Silicon Valley really view HTML 5 as the future platform we will all be building to, and that is where we are putting a huge amount of our investment in the next year”.

Data Gathering

Before you go further in web designing, it is important to thoroughly understand the purpose of the website you are about to create. Is it solely to display information or to promote a product or service?

Considering the age, sex and interest of your audience will help you to create a great design suited for your target audience.

It is very important that a web designer should meet the expectations of the target audience as well as the client. Make sure to ask tons of information from your client on how he wants the website to be so that you will know what you need to do and what to avoid.

Planning

Planning involves creating a design strategy based on your gathered information. It is in this phase where you decide what technologies should be used, choosing a navigational system, or determining what content to show on a particular area of the web page.

Designing

Part of the designing phase is the selection of colors that best fit to the target audience. It also entails making of the company logo that will be displayed on the website.

Coding

At this time, your graphic design will be used to create the actual and functional website. This involves tons of programming work and includes creating interactive contact forms, animations, or functional e-commerce shopping carts.

Launching

After the last minute testing, when your site looks good, then launching of website takes place. Launching means your website is going live for public viewing. In includes uploading your website to the live server.

Maintenance

These are little task to take care after a website has gone live. When the client is unable to maintain it, you can negotiate with your client to take over the website maintenance for you.