Good and Bad desgin

Some of the elements that consist of a good design are : Text - Background does not interrupt the text, text is big enough to read,columns of text are narrower than in a book to make reading easier on the screen. Navigation - Navigation buttons and bars are easy to understand and use , navigation buttons and bars provide the visitor with a clue as to where they are, what page of the site they are currently on frames, if used, are not obtrusive , and a large site has an index or site map. Links - the links colors coordinate with page colors , and the links are underlined so they are clear to the visitor. Graphics -Buttons are not big , Every graphic has an different label , every graphic link has a matching text link ,Graphics and backgrounds use browser-safe colors , Animated graphics turn off by themselves. General Design - Pages download quickly , Good use of graphic elements to break up large areas of text , Every web page in the site looks like it belongs to the same site; there are repetitive elements that carry throughout the pages. A page with a bad designs are : Backgrounds - default gray color , Color combinations of text and background that make the text hard to read , Busy and distracting backgrounds that make the text hard to read. Text - Text that is too small to read , Text crowding against the left edge. Links - Default blue links , Blue link borders around graphics. Graphics - Large graphic files that take forever to load , meaningless or useless graphics. Tables - Borders turned on in tables , Tables used as design elements, especially with extra large (dorky) borders. Blinking and animations - anything that blinks, especially text , Multiple things that blink. Junk - Counters on pages , junky advertising. Navigation - Unclear navigation; over complex navigation , complicated frames, too many frames, unnecessary scroll bars in frames. General Design - Frames that make you scroll sideways , No focal point on the page.