Good Design and Bad Design

What I got from this was that consistency is important. A good design needs to be symmetrical, easy on the eye and organized, but consistency stands out to me. Why? Because there are hardly any websites out there that are only one page. They're all linking to other pages with more information. But it would be bad, not to mention jarring, if the design suddenly changed into something completely different after the link was pressed.

This may seem like a basic, not even need mentioning thing, but it really is important to have an idea and stick to it with these things. That's good advice for almost anything, really. One shouldn't go showing off their designing abilities just because they can. It needs to be focused, and it has to be consistent.