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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Um, I guess a little clarification on what I mean by "white space" is in order. White space has nothing to do with what the content is, it's how it is presented. (Oh, and before we go any further, just want to make sure we're on the same page by saying that "white space" doesn't necessarily have to be white.) Just pulling a random site out of memory here... go take a look at [url=http://www.happycog.com/]Happy Cog Studios[/url] (it's Zeldman's design firm). Notice the use of white space here... lots of room for the content to breath, right? Notice in particular the spacious left margin and the space around the inset box to the right (for instance, notice how the inset box doesn't sit right up against the edge of the content container). As far as personal sites go, I humbly present my own [url=http://www.liminality.org/]Liminality[/url] as an example of white space with a vengeance (then again, Liminality is a personal site, and I can afford to take up 40% of the screen with white space). I'm not saying you should go that far, but you need to give your content room to breath. I know, I know, that's a catchy metaphor, but what does it mean? Well, in practical terms having "room to breath" means that it is easier for eye to follow the content and not get lost--ie, the content is easier to read. This is always a good thing. So, with judicious use of margins and line spacing, you can make the content on your page a lot easier to read and follow. Of course, this is best achieved through CSS, which is why I think you should [i]really[/i] start doing some research in that area. As for the menus... hmm... that's a tough one. They both serve their own purposes, yet they overlap each other. The top menu looks nicer, but the left menu is more traditional. Position-wise, I would go with the left-hand side. You're going to have to find a way to combine the functions of both menus into one, and the drop-down technique you use in the top menu will likely come in handy (for listing parts, for example). What you really want is the best of both menus rolled up into one. How you do that, ultimately, is up to you, I suppose. [quote]It started out with just ten pages, ten areas of commerce. Now, things keep getting added on and I dont know how to keep it all straight in my head. It has been said before... "I am in way over my head!"[/quote] That's never a good sign. "Project creep," it's called. This is why you want to try to nail down the scope of the project early in the planning phase. You're always going to have project creep, of course, but the better you plan, the more you can minimize it. Guess you'll know for next time. :) [small](Edited by [internallink=2031]Suho1004[/internallink] on 04-23-2004 02:33)[/small] Loading...
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