Principles of Beautiful Web Design
As part of my brainstorming to come up with design ideas this morning, I was surfing around the ol’ Internet and came across a wonderful little site. It was highlighted on Stylegala as a new entry, and I thought it was really cool. Since our class is always talking about and questioning what makes good design, I thought I would flag it for everyone. The site is a promotional site for the book designer Jason Beaird has recently published: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design. What is most fun about the site is that when you hover and/or click on the menu items, such as “Layout,” you get a visual description of how Jason applied certain design principles on his page. This creative use of imagery is a good explanation of how to use different elements and how to apply different techniques.
April 30th, 2007 at 8:42 am
I looked at your two project sites again and apparently I missed - or couldn’t see - the Iwo Jima photo at the right of the Project (a) site header. That image provides much better balance for the rest of the header than I could originally see on the class projector, and my only suggestion would be to un-fade it somewhat so the viewer can see it better. I do like the stamp theme, color scheme and header text on the Project (b) site, but the (a) site shows more sophistication.
John Lillard