When building a website from a design we’re tasked with taking a static design and turning it into a living, breathing, responsive website. Think about some of the most impressive websites you’ve seen, were they static content or did the site interact with you as you navigate around the page?

We often don’t put enough emphasis on these finer points, considering them “nice-to-haves” or “gimmicks”, and forgetting the difference they can make to the experience our users can have. These touches don’t have to involve heavy animation libraries either, they can be added with a few lines of CSS and occasionally a small script that runs after the page is loaded.

Once all is said and done, we’re generally moving on to testing and launching and we forget to focus on the little touches that make our website special. It might be as simple as adding some hover effects, or using CSS animations to bring life to the page.

So let’s spend some time on the finer points. On transitions, and micro-animations; on what should be designed and built to take our websites and make them wow!