Advanced web design features (part 2)
Let's review the flexibility that is available in custom websites.Where and how do you want the website to appear within a browser window?
It can follow the width of the browser window, or it can be left justified within it, or it can be centered.
You can specify the background color outside of the website and within the browser window. Or you can specify a graphical background that will be tiled to fill the same area.
You can specify the background color or the graphical background for the website itself.
In our previous posting, we discussed the universal website structure. You can specify the layout and content of each of those structural areas by specifying the size, color, files, and HTML code that you want.
For example, let's work with only the top banner of the website. What can you do?
- You can turn it off entirely
- You can specify the width and height of the area
- You can choose the color for the background or supply a file with the background image
- You can specify the graphic image file that will appear here. It can be a flash file, too
- You can specify whether the header will appear across the entire width of the website, or if the header will be sandwiched between the left and right areas
- You can define a menu area using the menu declarations specified in the admin area.
Take a look at your current website. Do you see the elements within the structure that are specified by the options above?
That's just the top area. We will cover the middle area in our next posting.
posted by Shig Nishio @ 6/18/2007 09:13:00 PM
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