The document discusses best practices for structuring web pages. It recommends that pages include headers, content areas, and footers. Headers should provide site identity and navigation, while footers house minor informational elements. Templates help ensure consistency across pages by establishing common design elements. The document advises against using splash pages that do not provide functional value to users.

1. Page Structure CGS2826 Web Design Program in Interdisciplinary Computing Florida State University From Web Style Guide, Chapter 6: Page Structure

2. The experienced web designer, like the talented newspaper art director, accepts that many projects she works on will have headers and columns and footers. Her job is not to whine about emerging commonalities but to use them to create pages that are distinctive, natural, brand-appropriate, subtly memorable, and quietly but unmistakably engaging. — Jeffrey Zeldman

3. Site Design should… Satisfy design norms and user expectations Focus on providing great content and services rather than on technologies and design novelty. Be consistent with enterprise and organizational standards

5. Headers Headers provide site identity and global navigation, with search and perhaps other tools. Headers are the most visible component of site identity.

6. Scan Columns Sectional links Search box Contact info Other minor elements Left or right, no matter

7. Content Area

8. Footers Housekeeping Info Author Copyright Contact Info Link to site map Links to related sites

9. Page Templates Internal page template dictates the general characteristics of the site.

10. Page Templates Secondary page template establishes header labels Act as “sub-home page”

11. Home Page

12. Tag Lines Let visitors know what you do!

13. Above the Fold

14. Dropdown menus Use with caution Consider Accessibility

15. Role-based navigation

16. Splash Page? Author: Don’t ever use an indulgent, functionally useless splash page as “eye candy” at the entrance to your site. Ever. http://www.webdesigndev.com/inspiration/20-crazy-but-creative-website-splash-page-examples