Good Web Site Design

There are very few web pages on the internet that clearly state what is good web site design and what is not good web site design. That’s because it’s completely subjective, like what is beautiful and what is not beautiful. So it takes a highly opinionated strong ego like this one to step in there and say “OK folks, this is what it is.” Now I jumped on board the internet back in 1994 after I began to believe that not only would it be “The Next Big Thing”, but that it actually does offer the human race the potential to connect all our minds together in an entirely new way. When I decided to create my own web site, I first had to take a good look at as many music and other web sites as possible in order to learn what not to do before I could visualize what I should do. I’ve visited thousands of web sites since then, I’ve talked to countless net surfers about what they like and don’t like, and we all tend to agree on some major points:

Bad design includes the following qualities:

1. Text that is hard to read, including use of tiny fonts against black backgrounds and illegible fonts against...