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Web
Page Design Tutorial
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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