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

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

7. Content Area

11. Home Page

12. Tag Lines Let visitors know what you do!

13. Above the Fold

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