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About this web page design Remember that search engines "read" your web page from top, down, left-to-right. So the top left table cell gets read first. If it's empty, as here, the search engine will probably then read the text at the right (which is what you want) before going down to the menu in the left column. This text area is in Row 1, Column 2. The menu text at the left is in Row 2, Column 1. This sample's left column contains a single-cell table with a slogan or motto inside it. Subheads add "white space" A big block of text makes some visitors have a sudden desire to exit the web page. Help keep them reading by breaking up the text with logically placed subheads. The blank area around text or images is called "white space". The "White space rule" is to design so that you have twice as much white space next to unrelated elements as you do next to related elements. Here, the subhead text relates to the text directly below. So you use twice as much white space (distance) above teh subhead as you do below. That visually ties the subhead to its related text and still adds white space so the page doesn't look too "crammed". Font sizing When looking at different text elements on a page (headline, subheads, text, menu text, footer text, etc.) you need to have an obvious visual difference for text that plays different rolls. One difference is a different font for body text vs. head type text. another factor is font size. The site title is large. But how much smaller should the page title or page subheads be? In many ways, this is subjective. Just make sure that it's easy to see the which elements belong to which group (headline, subhead, ...). Alternate uses of the left column area An alternative for the current left-column "menu area" is to have links to special topics, Religion news, syndicated news items, or other material not directly related to the page. Another option is to use that left box area to hold links to a sub-web -- a whole series of pages sub-indexed by left-column links on your "About our church" page, for example ... You could include location info, staff names and office email addresses, your church's history (with a few nice old pictures), and your pastor's bio. Another really cool option is to put a free Google "site-flavored search" block on a lower part of a web page -- perhaps the home page. For a sample, see http://a963333.sites.myregisteredsite.com/help.htm A third option is to include the next week of your church calendar of events. What would your church members and potential web site visitors want to see on the page in question? Footers Each web page on your site should have a footer. The items most commonly placed there are:
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