Comments on: When Nothing is a Good Thing in Web Design http://www.learntodoitright.com/2009/03/14/when-nothing-is-a-good-thing/ Learn how to make your web site successful through customer-oriented web design, copywriting and SEO. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:50:57 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Viki Nygaard http://www.learntodoitright.com/2009/03/14/when-nothing-is-a-good-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-4542 Viki Nygaard Fri, 01 May 2009 18:03:37 +0000 http://www.learntodoitright.com/?p=411#comment-4542 Hi Webdev, Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. You brought up some good points, and those things also greatly contribute to a clean, enjoyable design. And yes, I agree, I need to install the subscribe to comments. Sometimes I need a good push. ;) Hi Webdev,

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. You brought up some good points, and those things also greatly contribute to a clean, enjoyable design. And yes, I agree, I need to install the subscribe to comments. Sometimes I need a good push. ;)

]]> By: Webdev http://www.learntodoitright.com/2009/03/14/when-nothing-is-a-good-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-4541 Webdev Fri, 01 May 2009 16:50:11 +0000 http://www.learntodoitright.com/?p=411#comment-4541 It's true. White space is something crucial to make readers feel more comfortable. Cluttered sites doesn't impress clients, people won't buy your products, so on. Big, tough, cleanly separated parts, the use of grid principle, good contrast, low number of colors, font sizes and families are what make a web site look brilliant and enjoyable. Ps: Subscirbe-to-comments won't be a bad luck to install :) It’s true. White space is something crucial to make readers feel more comfortable. Cluttered sites doesn’t impress clients, people won’t buy your products, so on.

Big, tough, cleanly separated parts, the use of grid principle, good contrast, low number of colors, font sizes and families are what make a web site look brilliant and enjoyable.

Ps: Subscirbe-to-comments won’t be a bad luck to install :)

]]> By: Viki Nygaard http://www.learntodoitright.com/2009/03/14/when-nothing-is-a-good-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-4305 Viki Nygaard Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:32:08 +0000 http://www.learntodoitright.com/?p=411#comment-4305 Adele, I agree. It not only looks awful when text is jammed up against an image, but it's also hard to read the text. Adele, I agree. It not only looks awful when text is jammed up against an image, but it’s also hard to read the text.

]]> By: Adele - I Ching http://www.learntodoitright.com/2009/03/14/when-nothing-is-a-good-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-4283 Adele - I Ching Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:33:27 +0000 http://www.learntodoitright.com/?p=411#comment-4283 I love white space and am also a graphaholic. But I think we should be able to manage both at once. One of the areas that bothers me when people don't use white space correctly is when they butt the text next to the image without any breathing room. I love white space and am also a graphaholic. But I think we should be able to manage both at once. One of the areas that bothers me when people don’t use white space correctly is when they butt the text next to the image without any breathing room.

]]> By: Viki Nygaard http://www.learntodoitright.com/2009/03/14/when-nothing-is-a-good-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-4197 Viki Nygaard Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:48:46 +0000 http://www.learntodoitright.com/?p=411#comment-4197 Barb, Wow, can I ever relate to tuning out white noise (white noise, unlike white space, is NOT a good thing). During my recent vacation to South Carolina, we ate out a lot, and every single restaurant we went to had music blasting in the background. Combine that with dozens of people talking and I ended up not being able to focus on much of anything. Pete, I think it's the nature of blogs to be a little bit more on the cluttered side and people have come to expect that. You can still use the same principles of white space, however, by making sure you allow plenty of white space around your text and images...and by keeping advertisements in the sidebars to a minimum (if applicable). Anita, My friend, like I told Pete, you get a little more leeway with a blog, and an image with every post is perfectly acceptable in the blogosphere. ;) Barb, Wow, can I ever relate to tuning out white noise (white noise, unlike white space, is NOT a good thing). During my recent vacation to South Carolina, we ate out a lot, and every single restaurant we went to had music blasting in the background. Combine that with dozens of people talking and I ended up not being able to focus on much of anything.

Pete, I think it’s the nature of blogs to be a little bit more on the cluttered side and people have come to expect that. You can still use the same principles of white space, however, by making sure you allow plenty of white space around your text and images…and by keeping advertisements in the sidebars to a minimum (if applicable).

Anita, My friend, like I told Pete, you get a little more leeway with a blog, and an image with every post is perfectly acceptable in the blogosphere. ;)

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