There are lots of design elements for designing a website such as web site layout, structure, typography and many more. But, there are also some less known elements available which helps you to create a powerful website design which are mentioned in detail as:

Social bookmarking: social bookmarking is the best way to share, organize and find your web pages. By using such techniques, a website can increase its visibility and get noticed by a lot of web customers.

Most recent: this section gives users, information, about the latest updates as to which of the business has been gaining popularity, any new product launch, services, new events or anything which  has just occurred.

Related Links: At the end of an article or blog, there should be links leading to appropriate content or some appropriate web page. For business, such links could connect to appropriate items or concerned provides. The concept is that if there are no links to follow, the visitor will decide to browse other web page.

Feedback forms: to integrate a feedback form in a website is very beneficial. Visitors can easily give reply and view points for company products and services.

Surveys and polls: new websites often conduct surveys and polls on different topics which is useful to know other's point of view. Business can use this to know about preferences of its customers. Well-known blogs have introduced this feature in their website to communicate with visitors.

This is very additional information for web designer. I would like to add few more basic elements of web design are content, usability, appearance and visibility etc.

I am surprised you are mentioning above elements as part of web design, Yes they are but they can't used everywhere. I believe if you want to make a really good website then follow simple architecture but useful and quality information.

Powerful website designing is the depended on the Designer's good Mentality and Improvement Of Current things logic; the main thing is something different for the other website which is easy operate by any new user thats mean using simple tags and but secure...!!

If design of websites make easy for users than its a powerful design, but if make design complex function than user's interest might be decrease. 

Hello..
Powerful website design element s are:-

1) Functionality
2) Navigation
3) Seo
4) The major factor affecting the overall look and feel of a website is web aesthetics.
Thnx....

These five elements are part of any powerful web design strategy.

- Improved Navigation Feature
- Higher Level of Security for Users
- The layout is clear and clean
- Pages load without any significant delays.
- The future is written into the plan

Web Design is the most vital part of any type of website. So you have to create some extra ordinary design for website therefor you will get high traffic. Any ways this type of tips always help to everyone and this is the basic element so we have to must follow this element.

Great efforts! Great blog. Thanks for sharing. Hope to hear from you soon. 

Quote from: spinxwebdesign on July 11, 2012, 06:33:55 AM
There are lots of design elements for designing a website such as web site layout, structure, typography and many more. But, there are also some less known elements available which helps you to create a powerful website design which are mentioned in detail as:

Social bookmarking: social bookmarking is the best way to share, organize and find your web pages. By using such techniques, a website can increase its visibility and get noticed by a lot of web customers.

Most recent: this section gives users, information, about the latest updates as to which of the business has been gaining popularity, any new product launch, services, new events or anything which  has just occurred.

Related Links: At the end of an article or blog, there should be links leading to appropriate content or some appropriate web page. For business, such links could connect to appropriate items or concerned provides. The concept is that if there are no links to follow, the visitor will decide to browse other web page.

Feedback forms: to integrate a feedback form in a website is very beneficial. Visitors can easily give reply and view points for company products and services.

Surveys and polls: new websites often conduct surveys and polls on different topics which is useful to know other's point of view. Business can use this to know about preferences of its customers. Well-known blogs have introduced this feature in their website to communicate with visitors.

Nice post. These are really powerful elements that increase the visibility of website.

All the given website design elements are really useful and I would like to use for best web design.