Our Site Is "Busy" and We Like It That Way! Hmph.

If you’ve started to notice a web trend toward lots of white space, that big, blocky text, and that kinda-sorta-3D feel, you probably should have written this recent posting on Web Design from Scratch. But since you didn’t, now you’ll have to at least read it, as it provides some good, far-more-thorough-than-“hey, I did notice that!” insight as to why these sites look the way they do, how they function, and why it works. They do not, however, make mention of having picked sites that look really similar to their own, but that is neither here nor there.