Web Site Design

Web Site Design and what looks good, is very much a personal preference. I very early on learnt that text that is too big looks unprofessional. Obviously, there are cases when an entire site should be built in a very large font, but on the whole, that's not required.

Yet sometimes something unexpected happens when you are designing a web site. One currently about to be published looked good, but the customer asked for all text sizes to be increased by 50%. Using 18pt and 24pt arial fonts across a whole site lost the look and feel of the web design that we had put ages into designing.

In another case we designed a web site in pastel colours. Lot's of nice curling areas on the screen etc and it all fitted into the web site nicely. Just what the customer had asked for, we thought. Then we were passed the current logo and told to colour match with shades of brown. The customer was delighted with the final web site, but I have to say that the design wasn't one I was too impressed with when it was finished.

I'm not saying that as web site designers our tastes are perfect. But what we pass to you in the first attempt may look good to us, but it depends on your tastes what looks good to you. More importantly though, what sort of design will look good to those visiting your web site?