Designing Content
October 17, 2005
This is where you put your content
When designing a site, in addition to the overall design, I’ll do custom layouts for certain pages based upon the different types of content. I usually tweak the design of the site again to help everything flow together. I spend a lot of time thinking about how certain elements of the site will interact with each other. Since web design is not static, I make allowances for that in the design and try to anticipate the areas of the layout that will need the most flexibility.
If it’s a site that is going to be maintained by someone other than myself, or even if I am going to be the one making updates, a Content Management System is usually part of the process. This involves breaking the layout into blocks of content, and making templates that have repeating information such as a header and a footer. What I end up with is a basic framework that has one or two areas that I will insert content into.
When I have free time, I spend it working on