Web Design Trends « Paul Sweatte

Web Design Trends

Centered content area with a light background framed by a dark canvas background
Transparent tiled or gradient header and footer background images
Thick borders between centered content and sidebar, canvas, or footer
Thin borders between content sections
Darker borders around navigation and content area, lighter borders around sidebar and form fields
Text for headers uses lighter shade of canvas color, text for copy uses opposite color as content area
Bright colors for highlighted content
Scrolling text instead of paginated content
Page labels instead of page numbers
14px -16px font-size for copy
Rounded Corners
4-8px vertical margins between small icons or checkbox fields
10-20px vertical margins between paragraphs
20-30px vertical margins between content sections
30-40px horizontal padding between container and content
40-50px horizontal margins between columns