Comments on: The Four Key Components of a Great Web Design

By: Anna Conroy

Anna Conroy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:05:16 +0000

Great article. It’s unbelievably challenging to find examples of great sites or even good site design principles out there today. I just went through the exercise. Thanks for this.

By: Siddhartha Oza

Siddhartha Oza — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:04:08 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful article and guide. Would really appreciate expansion of these 4 categories into separate articles. I can see the “Whitespace” one is up already, so maybe I will see them soon…

By: Adam Hermsdorfer

Adam Hermsdorfer — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:00:48 +0000

Can’t argue with those characteristics and examples. Very nice article. If you were to change the title to “5 key components of a great web site”, what would you add? I think calls to action would fill the 5th spot. Thoughts?

By: Nicky McCatty

Nicky McCatty — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:19:05 +0000

The following paragraph, from section 4 of this article, has two instances of “it’s,” one correct and one incorrect. When IT apostrophe S describe’s [sic] a contraction for IT IS, use an apostrophe. It’s correct in this situation.

When you are talking about a possessive, it’s *not* correct to use an apostrophe. Its apostrophe dissappears when you’re saying somethin belongs to the IT of the sentence.

* Right
** Wrong
The Squarespace blog has a typical blog layout and an overall clean design, but notice the pixel perfect tick marks that line the left and right borders of the content area. *It’s such a minimal design element, but it serves **it’s purpose in establishing focus on the content while staying consistent with the rest of the design.

By: Michael Plant

Michael Plant — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:20:39 +0000

Content is probably the most important component of all. You can have the crappiest design on the whole planet, but with good content it will still be read. What happened to content?

By: Martin LeBlanc

Martin LeBlanc — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:38:48 +0000

Pretty webdesign does not equal good webdesign.

Webdesign should be visual appealing, but the main purpose is to to effectively communicate the clients offers to the visitor.
If it doesn’t solve that primary purpose any nice font or color scheme doesn’t make the design better.

By: Thibault

Thibault — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:38:32 +0000

Great article. Thanks for sharing.

By: Ted Rex

Ted Rex — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:22:12 +0000

So simple, and yet so difficult to master…

I made this page on of my three links for the day on my daily design blog:
http://designthoughtfortheday.blogspot.com/

Ted

By: wien

wien — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:11:33 +0000

nice article, thanks

By: Opal

Opal — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:29:00 +0000

“All aspects of a great design must compliment each other”

That’s “complement each other”.

Opal, a pedant who believes that typography isn’t all there is to saying something.