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Basic Principles Of Design

By PhilWebServices, Oct. 6, 2009 in Web Design And Development | 1 Comment

The basic principles of designs help the web designers on putting together all the design elements in an appropriate manner. Using these principles, it also help web designers build more pleasing and useful designs since design is beyond embedding HTML tags up to the site.

BALANCE. The principle of balance shows you how to lay out your pages so that it will work. It is also the allocation of the light elements and the heavy elements on a website. The larger and the darker the elements are, the heavier it will be in the design. Balance is a visual interpretation of gravity in the design. The position of elements on the page determines how balanced the page appears. It is in the layout that the balance in web design is found.

CONTRAST. Contrast is not just all about colors, as what all people thought. But it is more than that. There are the contrasting sizes, contrasting textures and contrasting shapes. Contrast in design is an accentuation of the differences between elements in a design. By using more subtle differences in contrasting font sizes, images, layout shapes and text styles, you can take advantage of contrast without blasting your browsers with a loud contrasting color scheme.

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