The website Colour Lovers is for people who love colours. But perhaps would you like more useful information about this site? Core features is colour palette creation. Once you’re done using the very handy colour picker, you name the palette after what ever you feel like. Your palette is then published, and other colour lovers can vote and comment on it. You can also discuss colour issues on community forums or by joining a group. But Colour Lovers is also a great resource to find a colour scheme to suit a new project of website.

So you don’t know anything about design? And you think it is not fair to have a ugly website? Please stop complaining about your lack of skills and get Jason Beaird’s book. The good thing about The Principles of beautiful web design is that it will take you through design basics and show how to actually apply them to your website. Jason Beaird is a fully trained designer and a professional web designer as well. Such a combination of skills is quite rare, that’s what make Jason’s advice so precious in my opinion.

As far as I’m concerned, grid theory was a great revelation. I now understand why some design will look unbalanced, and why sometimes asymmetry is ok. This book gives more tips about pages layout, color scheme selection, adding texture to layouts, typography theory, imagery management. All explanations are illustrated with examples and resource websites addresses. To give more life to his presentations, Jason built up a design for a tile company all the book long, it is a great way to take the reader by the hand and take him through design steps.

The book is short (168 pages), it is a quick and efficient way to get overview of good web design, before going more in depth in each aspect.

More information about The Principles of beautiful web design can be found on the book website.