Web Design From Scratch has a nice, well illustrated article on Current Style in Web Design.
Of course, I don’t want to advocate always running with the herd, but in this case I’d argue that it isn’t so much the herd, but more of a pack. OK, so that isn’t such a great metaphor. What I’m trying to say is that I think the sites they mention exemplify some of the best, freshest sites on the net, and that I personally take a lot of inspiration from them.
I think the first thing I’ll do from this list is to lighten up my various sites templates a bit, making the page less “weighty”:
The great sites above share the following design features:
- 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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