Spotting quality web design

My (current) project is a re-design of LU Online. This morning, one of our programmers sent me this article. Basic, but it never hurts to be reminded of the basics:

How to spot web quality in a design

I know there is one principle I'm struggling with in this re-design, and that's space. I'm just not sure what the best solution is for me.

There is just so much content our client wants to include, and we are currently limiting ourselves to an 800 px wide website. I'm not really on board with that rule, but that's beside the point. I'm just not sure how to arrange all the content I'm given and balance it with a proportionate (and attractive) amount of space ...

Khoda

Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.

This video is pretty amazing. Reza created over 6,000 individual paintings (oh yeah, it took two years) to create this five minute animated short for his graduation film. If only I had that kind of talent!