Coder’s Eye

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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