Earth: Layout
Water: Navigation
Air: Content
Fire: Adding Multimedia
Earth: Layout
Water: Navigation
Air: Content
Fire: Adding Multimedia
As we discuss layout it's helpful to look at examples of the most popular design schemes. The screenshots below are of well designed pages that utilize the design rules mentioned on the "Earth-Concepts Page."
These pages are also from sites that offer great resources for building pages.
The image on the left is a screenshot of the site. On the right you can see the same page broken up into the three-section system.
Earth: Creating the layout of a page
Design Ideas
Elated provides free themed web kits. You can download buttons, backgrounds, and even complex interactive
layout schemes for free. Notice that although Elated uses complimentary colors, orange and blue, they altered the colors slightly to make them easy on the eyes.
The Stock.Xchng is a free stock photo gallery. These photos are copyright free and can be used by anyone.
You must become a member of the site but this is free.
Morguefile is another great place to get free photos. Notice that in this layout a picture is the dominant third of the screen.
This is a good scheme to use when the image is the most important item on the page.