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Table of Contents
- Welcome
- Web Basics
- Publishing on the Web: Putting Files on the Server
- Web Design Process and Workflow
- Project Management
- Mark My WWWord: HTML and XHTML
- Standards Compliance
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Layouts
- Visual Design and the Web
- Color Theory
- Working with CSS
- How to Create CSS Menus
- How Should Web Designers Manage Layouts?
- Shining Examples of Bad Design
- Get Your Site in a Festive Mood: How to Quickly Change Styles
- Designing Mobile Web Sites
- Designing for Mobile Devices
- Books and e-Books
- Online Resources
- Forms
- Meta Tags and Search
- Usability
- Accessibility
- Enhancing Web Page Interaction
- Web Graphics
- Web Page Optimization
- Multimedia
- Content
- Overview of Servers
- Server Programming Basics
- Careers in Web Design
- Tools
- Tutorials
- Intellectual Property for Web Designers
Layouts
Last updated Oct 17, 2003.
By Molly Holzschlag
When designers refer to a design's layout, they are referring to the way various visual components are placed on the page. These components might be text, lists, static graphics, animated graphics, multimedia, tables, and forms. Laying out pages for the Web has many unique challenges, largely because the Web was never designed as a visual space. Here, you'll delve more deeply into layout and the methods Web designers use to achieve great designs.
