What's the simplest CSS change that can bring a dramatic (non-destructive) aesthetic change to a web design?

The simplest changes are generally to colour and background colour. If your site is a light colour theme (light background, dark text), reverse this. It will make a big impact.

The simplest changes are generally to colour and background colour. If your site is a light colour theme (light background, dark text), reverse this. It will make a big impact.

Another simple change is to update all the fonts. For instance if you're mainly using sans-serif fonts (Arial, Verdana), change over to serif (Georgia is an excellent choice for this).

1 for Georgia. – Saladin Akara Sep 12 '10 at 13:12.

I guess that'd depend a lot on what the current design looks like. However, really simple things like tweaking margins and adding line-height often makes a big difference in pure readability.

Going beyond colors etc, you could use CSS to switch your nav from horizontal to vertical. With good XHTML and plenty of class names and IDs you can change a lot.

Small changes big difference: Add some icons for list items or links Add some CSS3 features (shadow, rounded, gradient, etc) Don't forget about normal, hover, and current state Text alignment Large heading/text size (I think it's trending now) Add more spaces (eyes love space) Make it clean.

Take a look at Zen Garden. It show numerous examples of how the appearance of fixed HTML is changed by supplying different CSS's. While most of the CSS changes are probably major, it certainly gives you some great examples of what can be done.

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