what i have learned about web 2.0 designs

• Page Refreshing - really nowdays i havnt seen much of page refreshing or going from one to another. unless net is slow :P (f5 f5 f5 f5). but AJAX helps or i say reduces the page count between point A and point B (aside from other reasons).
  
  
• Thats a BIG Whale - Big buttons, big text, big everything. Yes, it definitely has its place at times. The exception, of course, are pages on which 90% of the visitors are seeking the same action item, e.g. Mozilla.com (download Firefox). If you’ve got the big blues, consider negative space as suitable replacement.

Effects or typo

• Georgia .. not times new roman -
  
  
• Effects - shadow, gradient, dotted line - few years back my design head use to say dont use gradients or shadows or even big images. but its a fast world internet is getting faster. so why now and even with JAVASCRIPTING no need to make images just effects.
  
  
• Rounded corners - make it smooth... round is the in thing
  

Whats new

• Tags - why search when you can see whats famous or what other are searching it a cloud of tags (keywords)
  
  

Wild Card

• New MS fonts - JSM explains (back in March). If Vista includes the new typefaces as expected, I’m confident plenty of us will be quick to font-family them.