This page's purpose is to hold a set of notes, rules-of-thumb, and general guidelines related to web design that I believe are profound or useful.

As much as possible make sizes in 'em's. They will scale with the viewer's browser.

Where areas are in a direct ratio to each other, use the golden ratio (1:1.618)

Always leave white space to the outside of the page.

Keep line lengths around 60 characters. This is hard to do in IE, since it ignores max-width.

Increasing the line spacing (on the order of about 125%) increases readability.