How to Effectively Employ Negative Space in Website Design

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White space in web design can be defined as the space that is not occupied by content in a page layout. Furthermore, it is the amount of spacing between different objects and text within a website. Spacing can be used to group elements and content together to provide legibility and flow. Creating appropriate spacing when designing websites can be difficult - especially when dealing with fonts, colours and images. Excellent spacing can take your website from "okay" to excellent - it provides "pixel-perfect" quality in web design. I will be going over some tips to effectively implement proper use of white space when designing your next website.

There are many ways in which negative space can be implemented in website design. The most obvious candidates are margins and paddings. The main difficulty is that we are usually not aware of the negative space created by those properties. However, once we start paying attention to it we realize that even slight space misalignment can lead to distortion in the content architecture and design flow. By setting elements apart using margins or paddings you help define the relationship between them.

Firstly, a daily politics blog can come in one of two forms. The first type is the kind most people probably think a political blog looks like. It is the "personal blog". It is made by one individual. The second type is the corporate type. It is like a company as it has several writers or "contributors" who make up the daily blog into what is very similar to an online newspaper.

Secondly, the thing you need to know right away upon entering the politics blog universe is that the vast majority of political blogs are biased or at least "lean" one way or another -they are opinionated news. There are however many politics blogs that take a non-partisan or neutral approach to their blogging. Remember, this kind of blog might be articulating a point of view just like partisan blogs.

Finally, the most important thing to do, in my opinion, is to do research on the political blogs you start reading. If the blog is a personal one try to understand where they are coming from. If the blog is a corporate one look them up on Wikipedia. See who owns them and possibly which way they "lean" (left or right for instance) Informative Space.

I suggest you immediately figure out what kinds of political blogs you want to follow before you start following them. You should have an idea of what you are trying to accomplish by reading a blog online. Are you trying to educate yourself? Are you looking for other people who will articulate your shared positions on politics? Or maybe you want to act like a media analyst by looking at daily politics blogs on both sides of the political spectrum!