Introduction These design guidelines will help you create a quality, professional, and well-designed web site. When first creating web pages, you may be tempted to try bold or innovative designs. Quality design enhances your content.
Poor design gets in the way.
If you want to learn more about incorporating more advanced design concepts into your web site, please visit the sites listed in the References section at the bottom of this page. If you must use a color stick to pastels. Patterned backgrounds always make text harder to read. Background images can be exciting, but they are an advanced design concept, and can easily be very distracting. Black background pages might not print.