Monitoring Order: Visual Desire, the Organization of Web Pages, and Teaching the Rules of Design
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.2/features/wysocki/mOrder0.html
  peer-reviewed

Wysocki, Anne Frances
Kairos
1998

Abstract:

Monitoring Order looks at two potential sources -- writings about book design and writings about visual arrangement in painting -- for helping teachers of writing think about teaching visual composition for Web pages; both sources are problematic but suggest directions for further study.