What Is White Space And Should It Be Included In Web Design?
September 11th, 2008 by Click Consult
White space is the graphically and contextually empty area of space in a website design. While it doesn't necessarily have to be white, it does form an essential part of any good website design because it acts as an effective break between sections or frames. As well as being incorporated into web page design it can also be added at a deeper level when adding content to individual pages.
Some white space is necessary in all designs and by combining the liberal use of white space with a good colour palette websites can take on a crisp and clean look. Of course, as with anything, you can have too much of a good thing and including section upon section of white space will only serve to make your web pages look empty and desolate as though you have nothing to say.
Sites that use columns for their web content employ white space to generate a border effect and it is this white space that gives the column effect. Vertical white space is also heavily used in blogs to separate one blog entry from the next and give a structured and categorised feel to the overall effect.
While too much white space is a bad thing, so too is having too little. Website design means finding the right balance in many things and the intentional exclusion of content to bolster a design is one such web design element that means finding the appropriate level of balance.
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As we know that white space is a graphically empty space or area in the website design, white space is used as an effective break between sections or frames.
All white space are not a necessary part of website. But is essential part of any good website design. It should be added at deeper level while adding content to individual pages.
We should not ignore that some white spaces are very important in all designs, because white space with a good color place provides your website crisp and clean look.
It is the white space that is used to generate effective border and good column effects for website. Nowadays, vertical white space is heavily used in blogs to separate one blog entry from the next and give a structured and categorized feel to the overall effect.
But it is true that excess and less both are bad. So we should not give too much white space in website. The website must be well designed. Well designed website means to make right balance in many things.
I accept maximillan’s words:)
You will see from this site, that on the whole white space is not too bad. However, in order to achieve this, I had to slide the bottom frame up so that it overlapped the frame above it in the web site building software. It is much worse ln IE than in Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari. As you can tell, I am just a novice at present, but so far, no one has come up with an answer as to why the frame moves down to expose a large amount of white space, even though it is fine in the Web building software