Just found another great web design article over at Web Design from Scratch. It focuses more on the actual physical appearance than the website design how-to I posted Friday, so it’s a great complement to it.
They give lots of examples and note seven common features among today’s best websites:
- Simple layout
- 3D effects, used sparingly
- Soft, neutral background colours
- Strong colour, used sparingly
- Cute icons, used sparingly
- Plenty of whitespace
- Nice big text
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[…] The site was designed by Chris Garrett, who has designed many other sites as well. I love it because it manages to look cool while still being very easy to read. It’s also a textbook example of the current style in web design. […]