Web Design
ENG 330

• Design site of the day from:
  Sara and Claire plus one more that I'd call usability

Today’s topic is Design Principles. Reading for today is Web Site Design Made Easy Chapter 15. The list we will cover is: Alignment, Proximity, Repetition, Contrast (CRAP) and Balance, Proportion, Harmony, Unity, Rhythm and Movement. And speaking of contrast, don't do THIS.
Here is another site that summarizes the main four principles.

Plus,

• A good site that gives most of the key principles from Digital Web
• For a searchable database of Cool Home Pages visit CoolHome Pages.com
• Another site for inspiration (notice colors, use of type) thebestdesigns and check their archives (lots of Flash, CSS).
• Design links from Web Design for Designers.
• 5 Rules of Design (sort of) from Grantastic Design, which also has a good Design Glossary.
• Design principles fromAbout.com

Plus here is the assignment for your Personal Web Page. Take a look and be thinking about a design for next class. Note that you will be linking 5 or 6 pages together with local, or relative URLs, as opposed to absolute URLs (see Gaskill p. 151).

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