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Designing Your Web Site

Your web-site design considerations are not limited to the following list, but they certainly include

  1. The overall structure and organization of your site,
    We discuss these considerations on pages Structure and Organizing.

  2. The content of your site, and how ideas flow from one to another,
    A good outline of your ideas will help you organize the content of your pages. 
    Break the content down into manageable "bite-sized" pieces. 
    This lets your visitor deal with one thing at a time. 
    We discuss these considerations on the  Content page.

  3. The illustrations you need or want to help present your ideas,
    Drawings and graphs should be very clear and fit easily into the viewable area.
    We discuss these considerations on the Illustration page.

  4. The color scheme and graphical elements of your pages,
    Continuity of thought is conveyed, in part, through continuity of appearance. 
    Using a consistent color scheme will enhance the visual integrity of your web site.
    We discuss these considerations on the Themes page.

  5. The layout of your text - for appearance and control.
    Getting your text to appear exactly as you want it to can be difficult.
    Different browsers can vary widely in how they display a given web page.
    We discuss these considerations on the Tables page.

Some final thoughts - as you select the typefaces you want to use in your web site, remember that unless your visitor has those same typefaces installed, your text will not be rendered in your choice of font.  Instead, it will appear in the default typeface of your visitor's computer - usually Times New Roman for serif fonts and Arial for sans serif fonts.  So, be cautious in using terrific new typefaces that nobody else is using - many of your visitors won't see them.

Bookmarks may aid you in directing your visitors to the places you intend - we used several bookmarks to guide your return to specific points on our pages.  Consider how you might make use of this handy feature.  Be sure to create enough room below any bookmark for it to appear at the top of your visitor's screen.  To do that may require pressing Enter several times to add space below your bookmarked text.  

We discussed using FrontPage Navigation Bars as an easy way to create standard links to pages in a hierarchical manner.  Across the bottom of each page, I have inserted a manually created Navigation Bar - it lists all the pages in the web site except the current page.  In combination with the top and left Navigation Bars provided by FrontPage, it gives my visitors complete control for visiting whatever page they wish at all times.

You have come to the end of this little tutorial.  To review from the top, click on the Home link in the Navigation Bar, either in the left column or at the bottom of this page. 

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