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Here's a note from today's class about creating consistent pages when making a website!

Creating consistent content pages

Organizing Content:
- How your organize content on a page highlights important features and elements of your site
- Important elements might be higher in the page, larger in size, or in stronger colors
- Identifying common structures between pages helps visitors understand they are in the same site as they navigate from page to page

Questions to consider asking/referring to:
- Will your page banner be on each page? If yes, is it in the same place? Is it the same size?
- What font will you use for the titles or headings on your content pages?
- What color will you use font titles or headings on your content pages?
- What font will you use for descriptions on your content pages?

Navigation:
- Visitors need to know where they are in a site, where they need to go, and how to get back to where they came from
- Having a consistent layout grid helps orient visitors and keeps them from feeling lost.
- Using consistent buttons, links, and graphics on each page maintains a sense of place
- As visitors move from page to page, provide familiar visual cues and navigational aids

Questions to consider asking/referring to:
- Where will you place the navigation bar on the page? (Hint: Top not bottom so people don't have to scroll all the way down to the bottom!)
- What content will be on the navigation bar? (Hint: This should be the main area of the site! This is a very important question to think about! A website can be huge, but too much on a navigation bar can become far too much! Take apple's site for an example; they have many things but only 9 main things on the navigation bar!)
- Will the navigation bar be on every page? (Hint: most of the time, yes!)
- How will your navigation bar help visitors know which page they are on?