I found this video talking about different websites and what does and doesn't work with their design. I'm sorry to say that the video is ten minutes long but really its not hard to watch and gives several examples. The first site he mentions is the Google homepage. Since we talked about this in class I thought it would be good to go a little deeper into its design elements. He also explores a few online portfolio sites I thought might be good to listen to considering we'll be create our own in this class (or so I've heard). The narrator also shows a few bad example of what you shouldn't do. Most of what he says is very basic but since this is our first web design class I figured it would be a good video to steer us in the right direction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX0y7fe2ndk&feature=related