There are rules of thumb for just about everything, and web design isn't any different. There are do's and don'ts in web design—and since we're now really starting to dive into our templates, it's a good time to review some of these design tenets.

There are probably several dozen design principals, but I'm not an expert on , user experience (UX), and thus you'd be better served to pick up a good book that is focused on UX and GUI/interface design (I know that there are titles from Packt that you can look into). However, since we are building an application, and our application is made up of several components, It would be remiss if I didn't cover the fundamental three design principals.

Not only will we cover them in the following three short sections, but we will be adhering to them as we build our example application's templates. The reason we have things such as UX design principals essentially comes down to one thing—we want to have happy users!