November 9th, 2005

A great arti­cle from ALA about design choices and how they can kill or save a web site. One of the main points hit on is actu­ally pretty common sense - white space on a site. All too many pages try to fit every­thing into the ini­tially view­able area of a page, thus killing any chance for the eyes to rest and figure out what’s going on. Too many head­lines, columns, and busy images can ulti­mately reduce the effec­tive­ness of a design you may have spent hours, days, or weeks on.

Go take a look - it’s always nice to be reminded (or taught) some good design tips for the web.

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2 Responses to “Design Choices Can Cripple a Website”

1. Erik says:
   November 11th, 2005 at 11:49 am

   Iron­i­cally, the number 2 cul­prit respon­si­ble for crip­pling web­site design is tedious arti­cles about web­site design.
2. Daniel Andrews says:
   November 12th, 2005 at 10:45 pm

   You forget the actual words on a page mean little from a design stand­point, as long as the type is set well aes­thet­i­cally.

   It is not a designer’s job to write the copy - just to set it in a pleas­ing and appro­pri­ate manner.

   In short, go to hell.