Elements of design include font face, font colors, graphics, backgrounds, etc. A dancing Homer Simpson might, at first, appear pretty cool, but if this chubby icon of American culture has nothing to do with the content of your site, he'll merely serve as a distraction. Getting a feel for good design is easier when you have models. There are plenty of well and poorly designed pages on the Web.
Some sites exist specifically to showcase good design.
The site combines tips on good design along with tours of examples of bad design. This site is the online component to David Siegel's bestselling book, Creating Killer Web Sites . Although not very well organized, this site contains links to dozens of helpful Web sites, with special sections dedicated to graphics, color, design and style, etc. If you are using a Macintosh computer with a standard Mac mouse, click on the image and hold the mouse button down for a second. Another dialog box should appear on the screen asking you where you want to save the image.