Designing the layout
The layout is the grahic appearance of your website. Before you can actually build your site you need to decide how your site is going to look and what design pattern it will follow.
The design of a website depends on,
- What sort of website it is?
The website design you follow depends largely on the kind of website you are building. It may be a personal website, business website, e-commerce site, information site or a fun site. If you build one kind of site like informative for instance, your design would be different than a hobby site.
- What is its size?
This is also a main factor in determining the design of the website. If your site is small you can do well with small menus but if your site is large and you have lot of page, you will have to adopt a different design.
- What kind of information it covers?
The information contained in a website can be presented well with an efficient design. You should choose a design that goes well with the information flow and helps people to find information easily.
- Your Personal choice. Surely this is obvious.
Answering these questions will enable you to choose a better design you will adopt for your website.
In this guide i am going to give you some guide lines about the typical design layots found on the internet among various websites.
The common designs layouts used are,
Read on to find more about these layouts.
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