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What should a person do today to make their web design skills better?

2:16 with Nick Pettit

Nick is asked how people can improve their web design skills. He suggests using white space or "negative space" to break up the page and separate elements.

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    [Treehouse Teacher Q & A] 0:00
    What is one thing that somebody could concentrate on today to start 0:04
    making their designs better or to improve their web design skills? 0:07
    So what's something they could concentrate on today. 0:10
    Yeah, what's one thing that you could take out--colors, font sizing, line spacing-- 0:14
    what would you give advice to somebody for improving their website. 0:19
    So something that I see happen a lot when developers are trying to design websites 0:24
    is they really ignore the use of space, they don't include margin padding. 0:32
    I'm not sure why this feels unnecessary, but-- 0:38
    As a developer, I would just like to add that yeah I completely ignore that. Why would you-- 0:42
    Well,-- >>Pay attention to those. 0:47
    Every time I see kind of a newer designer or a developer that's trying to design something 0:49
    and then I see a website, it's always filled with texts that's running right up against the edge 0:55
    of an element or there's just things that are stacked right on top of one another 1:01
    and there's no clean spacing between the elements, and really, 1:08
    I think that a lot of people don't realize even more intermediate designers 1:13
    is that you can use space to break up the page and separate elements. 1:17
    It seems kind of obvious from stating it so plainly like that, but a lot of people 1:23
    will instead resort to using like borders and then excessive amounts of borders around those 1:28
    and they'll try to figure out how to separate their content using lots of 1:37
    different lines and shadows and not spacing. 1:42
    Lot of times you can just use space to go ahead and separate things like, 1:48
    just like you would paragraphs and a block of texts. 1:53
    So that's one thing that I think even for advanced designers can always be improved. 1:58
    You can always improve your use of spacing, 2:05
    because that's how you make a website look clean. 2:08
    [Question: What should a person do today to make their web design skills better?] 2:10
    [Treehouse Teacher Q & A] 2:11

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