Operation Manual

Web Site Design and Construction 39
 Click the Services page entry and drag it down below News,
dropping it when you see the cursor change to
(Same Level);
the alternative would be
(Child).
Notice that the child pages moved along with the parent “Services”
page, which is now back in its original place in the top-level ordering.
 Drag from the Master 2 icon in the Master Pages section and drop
onto the Option 1 page entry. That’s how easy it is to assign a
master page to a page! Do the same for Option 2.
 As we’ve concluded the hands-on portion of the chapter, now
would be a good time to save your work before moving on.
Besides the Site tab, WebPlus offers a variety of other ways to
manipulate pages: the Site Structure dialog, the Master Page Manager,
and both standard and right-click (context) menus. You can learn about
all of these in the help file—see the end-of-chapter links.
Page layout considerations
To conclude this chapter, we’ll offer some general comments about
designing pages for the Web. Be sure to take advantage of WebPlus’s
preview capabilities to examine how your site will look and feel to your
visitors. (See Chapter 7 for details on both “internal window” and
“external browser” preview options.)
As long as people are still reading Web pages, as opposed to watching
them or listening to them, everything you’ve been taught about editorial
style and text organization has relevance—so don’t throw away that old
style manual! Readers respond to good design and clear, concise
writing. They’ll respect the fact that you understand the proper way to
tell a story or convey an idea: the relation of headlines to body text, the
use of subheads, and so on.
Still, compared to a print site, the computer screen is a like a
rectangular hole through which users must peer at information. Will
users be inclined to scroll down and retrieve what has disappeared off
the bottom? Reading skills like scanning headlines or skimming stories
become less relevant when content is segmented into separate
screenfuls. And even the most computer-literate first-time visitor to
your Home page will have no idea how many pages there are or how
the pages are organized.