How To Make My Own Layout

By: Emma Drosy
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:08:22
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Making your own layout is not all that difficult what with all those templates and help available on the net. You just have to have a good idea of what you want and also where to look for the best help.

Before you start making your own layout, here are a few things that you need to keep in mind, if you want your layout to be effective.

  1. Make your layout attractive but simple. This means that you will have to select your background, color, images and other visual aspects with care, so that you r site looks attractive, but at the same time ensure that your site is not too complicated. Select the colors and images in such a way that there are pleasing to the eye and easy to look at.
  2. Make sure that your layout allows for easy and intuitive navigation. No matter how good your layout, if your visitors don't understand your site and can't find their way around easily it's going to flop.
  3. Provide as much help as you can to make life easier for everyone.
  4. Your site layout should not be too cluttered. Make sure that there is plenty of white space and the layout is well organized.
Once you are clear about the layout, the next thing is to get it translated into a site. Remember that these days one need not be an expert to make a layout on one's own. Forget about programming, you need not even know what HTML stands for. All that you need to know is what you want. You can get all the help you want in terms of layout building tools, templates, ready made images, layout ideas and a lot more. All for free - that is unless you are in the mood to spend. You can get a lot more ideas from paid sites.

So get going with your very own layout. It isn't half as difficult as you might have thought. Good luck.

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