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This site specifically relates to graphic design, but still demonstrates design basics. It looks at such things as target audiences and knowing the message you want to send.

This site demonstrates the process of design basics. It specifically refers to graphic design, and shows the importance of knowing your target audience and the message you want to send.

This web page discusses the graphic design process, a concept discussed on pages 14 and 15 of Lisa Graham's Basics of Design Layout & Typography for Beginners: Second Edition.

Audience, layout, color and more are covered with many good links.

This website provides a concise explanation of emphasis and ways to use it effectively. It gives you three questions to ask yourself that were also stated in our text in order to identify which is the primary message of emphasis, which is the second, etc. I like that it provides examples of emphasis and by clicking on the image, they tell you what is emphasized in the picture and how the focal point is established.

This article is about the Design Process. There are steps you should follow in order to achieve the best results. This article outlines those steps and explains them. The steps are: Gather Information, Create and Outline, Harness your creativity, Sketch and Wireframe, Design multiple versions and revise.

I really like this article because it explains the design process in an easy way that anyone can understand. I like how the article breaks the process into steps and how it uses bullets and lists to make reading and understanding the content of the article easier. 

A principle of repetition is gestalt. Gestalt means unified as a whole. This website outlines the techniques of gestalt including similarity, continuation, closure, figure/ground, proximity, etc.