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

By: baidu456

baidu456 — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:23:24 +0000

Thank You for this post. Just found it on google and i have to say that i;m really really surprised Thanks again and cheers dude!

By: web design hull

web design hull — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:11:33 +0000

Great article, you won’t go far wrong if you master these main points.

By: CSS Training Online

CSS Training Online — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:07:11 +0000

Very insightful articles Henry. It really touches the very essentials of great web design. Wireframing is very important both during the planning and also serves as a guide for the CSS layout.

By: alexDesign

alexDesign — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:05:42 +0000

thanks 4 this important information!
the great article of the week!

By: Ben Zachary

Ben Zachary — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:08:22 +0000

All very true. Usability is key too!

By: Xplore Studio

Xplore Studio — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:41:57 +0000

Thank you for pointing out these components! So often when we are busy meeting deadlines we often forget the essence of great web and graphic design. Thanks fr putting it in perspective again!

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.