At
this stage you need to decide on the design of your web site. This is very important,
as it will create the look and feel of your site.
Consistency
is especially important with web sites so that the person knows that they are
still in the same site.
To
start with it is best to draw some scathes of your page design. The only problem
with designing on paper is that what looks good on paper does not always look
good on a computer screen.
Next
you need to try your design on a computer screen, to do this open up your favourite
graphics program with a blank canvas of 783 x 398 pixels (this is the minimum
live space of a web browser on a 800 x 600 resolution screen). Now you can start
laying out your screen design.
By
using a graphics program you can see how your web page design will look on a computer
screen and if the colours don't look good, or the layout is wrong you can easily
change colours or move the layout around the screen till the page design looks
good.
It
is much easier trying out your page designs in a graphics program as it takes
seconds to move things around the screen, as opposed to an HTML page where it
can take hours rearranging the layout of a page.
The
image on the right shows the design layout of this site in the graphics program
Macromedia Fireworks before any HTML was written.
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