I've been looking through this forum today, finding threads about rules and breaking the rules - and I thought it would be a good idea to make a thread listing all the 'rules' - and links to relavent threads about them. I don't know many 'rules', so this could help me, as well as other beginners out too.
Rule of Thirds
DPS Forum: Rule of Thirds
DPS Blog: Rule of Thirds
The Golden Ratio
DPS FORUM: The Golden Ratio
Wikipedia: Golden Ratio
Breaking All the Rules
DPS Forum: Breaking All the Rules
Quotes
SteevDavis62: "There are no rules to photography! But these are the rules you should stick too until you learn how to break the rules. Because good photographers abide by the rules, but great photographers break them all, but break them in a way that works" - from 'Breaking All the Rules' thread.
I've probably missed many 'rules' that exist here on the boards, and on the web - so feel free to post up others that you have found
- leighton