HTML Layouts

<table width="800" border="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="background-color:#FFA500;"> <h1>Main Title of Web Page</h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFD700;width:100px;"> <b>Menu</b><br> HTML<br> CSS<br> JavaScript </td> <td style="background-color:#EEEEEE;height:400px;width:700px;"> Content goes here</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="background-color:#FFA500;text-align:center;"> Copyright W3Schools.com</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>

HTML Layout - Useful Tips

Tip: The biggest advantage of using CSS is that, if you place the CSS code in an external style sheet, your site becomes MUCH EASIER to maintain. You can change the layout of all your pages by editing one file. Tip: Because advanced layouts take time to create, a quicker option is to use a template. Search Google for free website templates (these are pre-built website layouts you can use and customize).

<div id="container" style="width:800px"> <div id="header" style="background-color:#FFA500;"> <h1 style="margin-bottom:0;">Main Title of Web Page</h1></div>

<div id="menu" style="background-color:#FFD700;height:400px;width:100px;float:left;"> <b>Menu</b><br> HTML<br> CSS<br> JavaScript</div> <div id="content" style="background-color:#EEEEEE;height:400px;width:700px;float:left;"> Content goes here</div> <div id="footer" style="background-color:#FFA500;clear:both;text-align:center;"> Copyright W3Schools.com</div> </div> </body> </html> PRACTICE (Exercise 11): 1. Create a web page named "css_layout.html" and add the code above to it.

3- HTML layout - using an external stylesheet. See the folder called "layouts" for an example. This demonstrates using the div tag only in the web page to place content and using the external CSS file to control where the div tags appear on the web page. Please note the use of the ID attribute on the div tags. This is similar to CSS classes.

USING TEMPLATES- Practice 6 Download the zipped folder "crosswalk.zip". This is a free website template that was downloaded from http://www.freecsstemplates.org/. Explore the files and folders that make up this template and try customizing it.