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Site organization and element positioning

The users visiting a website want to find something. You, as the designer, must make it easy for them to do so. If users leave the site without finding the element they are looking for, you as a designer have failed to deliver. The positioning of the navigation elements and other elements on the site [...]

Logical site organizational models

An efficient ordering of information is what users are looking for. Real content should be tucked away only a few clicks below the surface. The information can be simply placed in a sequence or in hierarchies. Web-like organizational structures have several advantages, but they tend to develop into dense links that explore information nuggets fully [...]

Tables

Tables are one of the primary tools that are used by web designers to gain control over elements of a web page. They also offer visually interesting organization of text and graphics. They help the designer designate specific parts or columns and rows for menus, navigation bars, or for framing images or content. However, browser [...]

Framed?

Web designers use frames when they wish to display multiple HTML documents on a single page at once. The implementation of frames was introduced by Netscape Navigator 2.0 and was not backward compatible and is not supported by a large number of browsers. Web designers who use frames have to double their labor by designing [...]