Create email signature in dreamweaver3/18/2024 ![]() This all depends on the kind of vibe you want your site to give off. ![]() The more columns and rows you have over the layout the more you risk a cluttered look, though I've went with quite a sparse and minimal design overall.Ĭolumns and rows can be brilliant formatting tools, you can add and subtract whitespace to make your pages look better, separate blocks of text and images, certainly take the time to experiment with them, sometimes adding a little cell that creates a holding space is the perfect thing to set two piece of content apart. My project, blog and photography pages have two columns - a main one with content and a smaller one on the right with an advert and appropriate links, in the blog page it has recent posts down the left hand side. You could also have a navigation menu that sits vertically along the left or right hand side like a column. How many columns will your site have? I went with three on the home, project and photography pages with images as links, my navigation bar is horizontal, along the bottom of the header. Step 3: Design Decisionsīefore getting in to colours, fonts and whatnot you'll need to consider a layout. ![]() This is a pretty standard and simple model, but it helps you work out what you want to put where in your site - it's also a useful way to make sure your site is easily navigable.ĭon't try and draw every link in, the problem is that creates a recursive and inifinite loop that makes dreamweaver's map view wet itself, never mind your piece of paper. (they're also linked in the sidebar of each project page but that's not relevant now)īelow the contact page I've got pages for links - simply to represent that the visitor can go somewhere from there. The top level pages - Home, Projects, Photography, About, Contact are all linked in the header - You can get to these from anywhere in the site.Ĭoming off these are sets of pages, from projects each project has a page which can be gotten to from the projects page. My index page is the same as my home page, a personal choice, intro animations aren't me. ![]() Before you start hitting the computer, looking for design cues and knocking together ideas and templates, sit down with a piece of paper, work out everything you want in your site and how you'll get to it. ![]()
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