Good Design Bad Design

Gretchen Pressley

As society becomes more Internet driven and people go to the Internet for every piece of information, good Web site design becomes vital for clearly passing on information. Especially for news Web sites or informative Web sites, credibility and professionalism is everything.

As we discussed in class, Web design has evolved so much since it was first invented. Plain text on colored backgrounds is not enough to hold the audience's attention with so many "cooler" sites out there now. Viewers want to be stimulated and want sites that are visually appealing so to capture and keep their attention. This is where pictures and graphics have just as much importance online as they do in a typical newspaper medium. However, as we see so often, it is very easy to become overstimulated when there is just too much happening on one site at one time. Too much movement and too many colors is distracting and not as professional.