Good Design Principles

• Dynamic photographs?
• Captions for all pictures?
• Eye-catching graphics and headings?
• Interesting and cohesive use of colour?
• Pleasing arrangement?
  

• large photo towards the middle
• smaller photos surrounding the bigger one
• rectangular photos, some horizontal, others vertical
• photos clustered towards the inside
• writing (copy and captions) on the outside
• white space is uniform
• white space to the outside edge

Two Resources:

Ten Rules of Basic Design

Eight column layout made easy