Web design is constantly evolving and changing, a few years back webpages were primarily designed and laid out using tables, an inappropriate method which somehow worked and became somewhat of a standard. Then the emergence of CSS came about, which gave designers more control over the elements on their pages such as styling font color, size, type face etc.

In my previous post "What to look for in a webhost" i mentioned a few things that you need to look out for when looking for a webhost, just last night I stumbled on Exabytes' latest promotion for their hosting packages, the St. Patrick's Day Treasure!

Alright, this topic might not be that related to Web Design, but it certainly is related, for what is the point of having a beautifully designed website when you can't publish it online? To do that, one would need a webhost, be it paid or free. Free webhosts are available if you know where to look for them, but there are often limitations for it, such as fixed templates, limited storage space, limited bandwidth etc.

Web design is constantly evolving and changing, a few years back webpages were primarily designed and laid out using tables, an inappropriate method which somehow worked and became somewhat of a standard. Then the emergence of CSS came about, which gave designers more control over the elements on their pages such as styling font color, size, type face etc.

As I promised, in this article I will discuss what makes a good web design. What I am about to say is the bare essentials in making a good web design and by no means will I touch on the type of graphics, color and other subjective elements that will be perceived differently by different eyes. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so what looks good to me might look awful to another.

In this age of information technology and the World Wide Web, more and more people are starting to own their own websites, be it a personal site, corporate site, or a portfolio site to showcase and promote themselves. All this is possible with affordable web hosting packages provided by a wide selection of web hosting companies, prices of domain names are rather affordable as well, for RM55 a year you could own your very own .com, .net, .info, .org, etc. domain name, it's like owning a piece of virtual real estate.