Web Design - Best Practices

1. Top 10 web design trends recommends: flat design thrives, responsive design, showcase better images, parallax websites, infographics, typography, simplify and focus on content, short presentation videos, improvement in newsletter design, and fixed navigation.

Examples:
Wistia
kasradesign
Portraits
Gabriel Giarnodoli
Crop The Block

2. 18 pivotal web design trends for 2014 recommends: flat UI, mobile view, more scrolling, HTML5 goodness and badness, micro UX, less text, minimalist navigation, CSS, video/moving backgrounds, richer content, making the most of one page, varied typography, monochromatic design, hypercolour, cards/tiles, bigger and better imagery, and fixed position content/navigation.

Examples:
The Daily Beast
Firestorm
AWWWARDS
Silktricky

3. The Hottest Web Design Trends of 2014 recommends: content first, interactive exploring, big content blocks, bold typography, fresh colours, high quality pictures and videos, one-page websites, HTML5, flat design, minimal icons, and parallex scrolling.

Examples:
Soyuzcoffee
DANIEL MOON
W3 markup
Level

These recommendations compare with my top 3 websites by how my top 3 websites all have high quality pictures and videos, the content is easy to read and it's very short, the typography is each site is easy to read and appealing, and these websites are easy to navigate.