Linked to this post is my example of a well designed web page. The purpose of this activity was to explore my CSS skills, and to produce a suitable design for a site using them.

Although basic (and probably not as good looking as it could be), I think this is a fairly good example of a well designed page because of the logical position of elements such as the navigation and main content area, and the size – and resize-ability – of the text on the page, allowing for easy reading. It is also deliberately thin, to aid in the ability to read the text (having no more than about 12 words across each line), and to ensure that even machines with lower resolution monitors can view everything without needing to scroll horizontally.

I do feel, however, that my design could be easily improved upon, as it feels a little claustrophobic and cluttered, probably because, in an effort to show off my CSS ability, I’ve added features which are not truly needed, such as the right-hand-side column (convention suggests that comments are often better positioned underneath posts, rather than to the side).