Page Layout refers to the layout of information on a website while design rerfers more stylized choices such as colors and font types. These two ideas blend together harmoniously for the information provided below. Imagine the first time you saw a web page with yellow font on a white background and animated GIF files everywhere — you left the site pretty quickly I bet.
Page Layout Ideas
1. Page Length – Pages should be no more than one page in length if possible. Important information
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2. Page Navigation – Sufficient navigation menu(s) should allow the users to traverse all of your website’s content in a quick and easy manner. Confusing or non-existent navigation systems will definitely frustrate website visitors.
3. Use DIV elements rather than TABLE elements to arrange information on your page. DIV elements provide more flexible options and a professional look.
4. No Horizontal Scrolling – Vertical Scrolling is bad enough, but horizontal scrolling is practically unforgivable. Many a website have had users leave simply because horizontal scrolling makes page navigation hard and it makes pages look sloppy.
Page Design Ideas
1. Theme – All pages should have a similar theme throughout a website. This can easily be accomplished via cascading style-sheets (CSS).
2. Colors – Colors should provide good definition and contrast, which allows website viewers to view your content and spend more of their time reading your content. Poor color choices can and will scare away prospective visitors and/or buyers.
3. Fonts – Fonts should be easily read by both web browser and humans. Only make use of fonts readily available on all Windows/Mac OSX machines. Specification of a custom or different font will only lead to confused or frustrated visitors.
4. Whitespace – Space around elements and page borders frames the content that you want website visitors to see. Too little whitespace makes a website look cluttered, un-organized, and somewhere to be avoided for purchases.