Design is an important element in almost everything. From product labels on the market to the online world, it is crucial to have a well thought out design in order to be successful. “20 Fresh and New Designs”,  an article by Steven Snell on sixrevisions.com, lists the latest techniques, layouts, and trends from 20 new websites.

One particular website that caught my eye was Beautiful 2.0, showcasing the best web design, CSS, and Flash artistry. In the gallery, one website I particularly found to be interesting was jamesgarner.co.uk. This website is a portfolio site for an illustrater James Garner, and the best element I found in it was creativity. It is very artistic and illustrative, and I really haven’t been to a site this unique before. Another website I cam across was CSS Luxury, which posts websites in groups of colors or structures. On this website, I learned that color scheme is very important and using colors that go well together and that are eye catching are much more effective than using colors that don’t blend well together. Color is important in making your content aesthetically pleasing to the viewers.

For my personal hypertext project, I think one of the most important steps is simply finding inspiration. Looking through all of these web design pages helps bring ideas, color schemes, layouts, fonts, and a lot of different design elements together. Another thing I learned from browsing through these websites is that content is just as or even more important than design. If there is no quality content, then the viewers may never come back even if the site is well designed.

You can view different web design elements here