Web Design Trends for 2006

Web Design From Scratch has assembled a wonderful collection of current trends in Web design along with short commentary and samples of each trend. A lot of what is on the list are design concepts that have been used on blogs and designer’s sites over the past couple of years. I’m excited that some of these design techniques are beginning to show up on more and more mainstream sites and hope the trend of going simple continues to catch on.

The seven trends that Web Design From Scratch highlight:

• Simple layout
• 3D effects, used sparingly
• Soft, neutral background colours
• Strong colour, used sparingly
• Cute icons, used sparingly
• Plenty of whitespace
• Nice big text