Exercises
Grab a pencil (the oldfangled kind) and sketch out your web site as a bunch of little rectangles with arrows between them. Sketch a rough overview of what each page will look like by putting squiggles where the text goes and doodles where the images go. Each arrow should start at a doodle icon that corresponds to the navigation button for the page the arrow leads to. Even if you have the latest whiz-bang web site management tools, sketching your site by hand can give you a much more intuitive grasp of which pages on your site will be easy to get to and how the layout of adjacent pages will work togetherall before you invest time in writing the actual HTML to connect the pages together. Believe it or not, I still sketch out web sites like this when I'm first designing them. Sometimes you can't beat a pencil and paper!
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