C.R.A.P. Principles of Professional Web Site Designing

Professional Web Site Designing is an art and a good website design and navigation attracts readers and brings in more traffic.

I found these four golden rules of site designing which the author calls as C.R.A.P. principles where C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity. Some excerpts…

Good contrast can make sites appear crisp and organized, whereas poor contrast blends it all into an incoherent mass of RGB values.

The repeating nature of weblog entries down a page lets you control how the user’s eye is guided down the layout of your site, and the correct spacing and design is crucial

Repetitive alignment and symmetrical spacing are two techniques that can be used extensively in blog-based interface design, simply because there are so many opportunities to group elements together in some type of designed widget or box-like area.

The principle of proximity allows similar or related elements to be grouped together to form a cohesive whole. Items that aren’t related should be kept visually separate from those which are.

Well I agree with what he says. I am also learning web designing by reading such good articles which help me to make this site better for you. Here are 15 more web designing tips and tools.