I came across this site which talks about today's trends in Web Designing. Eventhough I dont do any web-designing these days I do keep track of these trends. It always amuses me how these evolution taking place in the web-designing front. I think AJAX is adding a lot of values to these designs(like those show/hide transitions in iconbuffet.com ). But can anyone beat Google's web page design technique? I think its more of usability than design which attracts user to websites and ofcourse AJAX can make it work even better. Here is the link to the site which talks about all these new trends - http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm