III. DESIGN AND LAYOUT

III. DESIGN AND LAYOUT
Even if you are creating only a simple Web site, you should begin by sketching out the
layout of your site. Decide where you want titles, images, navigation buttons, and text to
appear on the screen. Most web sites have the same design characteristics on every page. For example, Web site titles are usually in the top left or top center, while navigation buttons usually appear vertically on the left or horizontally below the title. In addition to sketching out a layout for each page, you should determine how many pages you will need for the Web site. Thorough planning is essential to good web design.
In order to get your text, navigation buttons, and images to appear where you want them
on the Web page; you need to use tables to format content of each page. Everything on
each page of your Web site should fit within one large table.
Using your layout sketches, you can determine what your table needs to look like.
Fig. 1 shows a simple layout sketch.
Fig. 2 shows the same layout, with table borders drawn in.