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There is a big amout of talented webmasters who expirience difficulty creating a proportionally layed out template, just because they are not familiar with the sphere of web design. What I would suggest a beginner is -- to look upon a website, as upon a magazine.

When we see a magazine for the first time, it always introduces us very clearly to the main theme of the edition, weather it's fashion, music or business. Following the splash page, we will shall always find a table of contents, which displays in great details everything we are going to find in this edition. This table of content is going to be your site map, which is rather necessarily, especially if your site consists from many pages or / and chapters. Likewise, in any magazine we will find the formal pages such as who created it, copyright, contacts and other pages, depending on the nature of the magazine. In the website you create, try to include all the possible information regarding the copyright of the offered material -- if it's not yours but taken, provide the credits and always take other's material only after receiving a written permission.

Following the formal pages, you are getting to main content. Each page has an easy to find title, most likely illustrations to accompany the content, and the text itself -- easy to read, with a good contras against the background. Always "broken" into columns or paragraphs. However, it's important to remember, that our computer's screen is not a page. On the one hand it gives us the opportunity of interaction or animation, on the other hand... building an interactive yes easy to read, navigate and use site is no easier then composing a page.

What else can learn from a composition of a magazine though? When it comes to blocks of text, very important thing are the margins. Your site will never look professional if the text is "glued" to the border and have no equal margins from top, bottom, and both sides.



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