A lot of trends come and go in web design, and its important for designers and business owners to keep up with them in order to stay up-to-date and avoid having an outdated website.

The major trends which are being followed includes:

1. Responsive Designs
   Responsive Web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experienceeasy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrollingacross a wide range of devices (from mobile phones to desktop computer monitors).
   
   
2. Flat Designs
   Flat design is a minimalistic design approach that emphasizes usability. It features clean, open space, crisp edges, bright colors and two-dimensional/flat illustrations.Flat design is a minimalistic design approach that emphasizes usability. It features clean, open space, crisp edges, bright colors and two-dimensional/flat illustrations.
   
   
3. Simple Color Schemes
   The mastery of color theory, relations and harmonies is one of the primary steps to uncovering the full beauty and potential of an artwork. Designers have started creating websites in very simple color schemes.The use of a more simple color scheme seems to come with flat design (discussed above).
   
   
4. Non-boring Typography
   One trend with type that were found last year is fonts with personality. These are the fonts which can stand on their own. They are not like standard serif or san-serif font (ahem, Helvetica).
   
   

5. Mobiles Being Focused
   Designs for web can not be created without considering mobile phones and other such devices. Since a lot of types of phones and tablets have reached to the user, the designs need to be made flexible enough to render on these devices.