Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page
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Distributing layer position in sequence
I'm in storyboard hell. I have to place about 400 seperate images in sequence on a huge board in photoshop. So I have a 20,000 px by 10,000 px board and a load of layers which have been imported in ...
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How to convince a stubborn client that white space is absolutely neccessary?
We have all been there: you show a client your design and they say "look at all that unused space, we can go ahead and make the text bigger, in fact let me give you more copy. We need to make use of ...
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How to beautifully incorporate tables in texts/documents
From time to time I have to write a small report and usually I end up having to present data in a table. Everytime I end up thinking that a table is an ugly looking rectangular box I wish I could ...
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Does ideal measure change with language?
The ideal measure for single column of text is most widely accepted as around 65 characters, but does this depend on the language of the text? Some languages like French have much longer words than ...
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What do you call the first paragraph in a layout where its bigger and made to stand out?
So you often see the first paragraph, for example of an about us page, where the first paragraph has a larger font and just kind of gives an enticing bit of information to read further. Anybody know ...
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InDesign CS6: How should I structure pages of lists?
I'm having several different parts of a publication I'm doing where I'm presenting essentially a list of compound data. Examples are contact specifications (data points are [Name,Phone,Email]), recent ...
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Can anyone offer some advice on the relationship between design and business goals?
I am designing a one page site, and I need to go back to basics and learn about how to translate business aims into a homepage design.
Can anyone offer some advice on the relationship between design ...
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Why do newspapers use multiple columns?
This might not be the right place to ask, but I was wondering why newspapers use multiple columns? Does it take up less space, or is there a visual reason?
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Mobile layout grid dimensions?
I am trying to figure out what the standard grid layout is for ios6 and possibly android. I use photoshop cs6 and recently sketch 2. What dimensions should I set?
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Encyclopaedia-style InDesign running headers, where pages have many, one or zero headings
So, you can have a heading running on each page that varies automatically based on the most recent heading (or, occurrence of any other paragraph style) by putting text with InDesign text variables ...
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I have a inline image aligned to the right in a master with one column. How to keep the image to the right with 2 cols master_
I have a master with only one column (A) and the picture it-s into the text frame. Now I need 2 columns but how to make the logo to stay on the right?
We found 2 solutions but are not very good:
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Overlapping images - how to slice in photoshop CS5
I got pretty simple example of site layout (link below), and i need to slice it.
The problem is, when i have 2 images, or image and title overlapping, and when i try to make slices of both, i get one ...
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How to treat right margin/padding of list?
This is well in the realm of "it doesn't really matter" or "whatever looks best", I know, but I was curious as to whether or not there was a generally accepted convention about this (or a ...
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InDesign: How to create lines for form design?
Every once in awhile I make forms (applications and whatnot) in InDesign, and, as it often is with ID, there is more than one way to get it done.
I have a few techniques that I use, but I often float ...
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What is the best way to setup the document for this kind of layout? Or an alternative layout [closed]
This is a catalog that contains the following items for each group: a header, image and table section;
Those are the rules
A: an article in the table might refer 1 or more models in the images
B: ...
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Books/Rescources for Composition and Layout for Print?
I'm starting my education in Graphic Design soon (once I finish my current degree) and I'm pretty much immersed myself information in preparation including textbooks that I will be using and websites ...
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In Design - Prints
I am a beginner to indesign and can't work out why when I print my document onto an A4 sheet my background colour won't go to the edge of the page. My document when printed has an uneven white border ...
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Layout with Tables - Hierarchy
In this fiddle there's a markup and style I'm doing for a website:
http://jsfiddle.net/UvJmP/
I am trying to represent data in this way:
D2's table data is contained in D1
D3's table data is ...
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In page composition, how perimeter and dead space relate to bleed
I really hope it's okay to post this. I am currently doing a pretty simple brief on collage/composition and so far it's really fun cutting up magazines and such but there is one exercise I'm a little ...
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Is there an ideal number of points of interests in web design? How many is too much?
I want to make a website, but I have too many important elements for that. I tried to simplify the structure, but it became boring to look at and tiresome to navigate.
Is there a rule or tip for ...
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What to change on this webpage, to look more elegant [closed]
I'm not ui ux engineer. I just want to hear your opinion/help on where would you (designers) put this grey box or app links, what is your opinion about colors?
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Advice on what to put on my home page
I need a little help, and general advice, on what I can put on the front page of my software company's website. I realise that this question is not as specific as some may like it to be, but I hoped ...
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Recommended column width for text reading, digital vs printed
Coming form a digital background, I have often read different kinds of suggestions (for example 35-50 ems) for how wide a column of body text should be to still maintain a good readability.
Is there ...
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For a social network what theme should use ? Dark colors with high contrast or low contrast? [closed]
I'm designing layout for a social networking site, should I use bright colors with low contrast or darker colors with more contrast ?
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What page numbering conventions are there for front matters (prelims) of books?
When a book uses arabic page numbering, the usual habit is to treat the front cover as a page number 1, and start the book itself by page number 3. However, sometimes the front-matter of the book is ...
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Back-matter numbering
It is a given fact that I cannot number the appendicies (i.e., back-matter) in my works/book by continuing the arabic numbering from the main-matter. The reason is that the main-matter numbering is ...
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Positioning a DIV before the previous DIV [closed]
I'm not savvy when it comes to HTML/CSS.
I use Typepad for my blog, and that limits me a lot.
There are four divs.
<div id="container-inner">
<div id="nav"></div>
<div ...
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Books on the Golden Ratio/Others for WebDesign?
Is there any recommended books about using the Phi (Golden Ratio) for WebDesign?
I've seen a lot of layouts taking advantage of this proportion, but it would be great to read a book with a lot of ...
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Mirrored spreads page reshuffling: objects partially outside pages don't update positions
Working on a file with a mirror layout where the inside margins are bigger than the outside margins. When creating a new page in the middle of the file or changing page positions, objects are ...
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UX research on where to put website menu? [closed]
If you browse websites, you can find pretty much all types of sidebar menus: on top (like our very own Stack Exchange), as left or right menu bar, or even at the bottom (though that's a less common ...
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How do you build a webpage with a main text body and 2 columns underneath? [closed]
I have a body of text that I am trying to layout in a visually pleasing way but I can not figure it out. The goal is to have this layout (see psuedocode):
<container>
<main />
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How can a design be balanced and yet have a focal point?
The concept of a focal point seems to be a fundamental one in web design, yet doesn't a focal point mean a page cannot be balanced?
Surely by definition a focal point means that the page's 'weight' ...
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Baseline Grid vs. Readability
Any designer worth their salt will talk about the importance of the grid, and rightfully so. However, as I've continued to practice my trade, I've found that the baseline grid in particular doesn't ...
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Layout Desgin and Color Scheme for a Crisis Mapping Web Application
here are a few screenshots of a web-based crisis mapping software, basically built for both governors and people. The design is somehow combined by ideas from different persons, so we are interested ...
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Leaflet fold where full-page spread is the last thing seen?
Is there a type of fold for one-sheet flyers where the last thing a reader reaches while working through it in a natural way is a full-page spread, and where sections of that full page spread are not ...
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How to use Illustrator to Create DIN A4, six-sided folder-flyer?
I'm not sure how to know which space I need to set a document in Adobe Illustrator CS5 when I want to create a six-sided DIN A4 folder-flyer. Is there a template somewhere out there that I can use? Or ...
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How To Achieve This Type of Page Border
I'm taking this website as an example: BuddyMiller.com
Is that border that looks like a nice persian rug, surrounding the page, something I would get from a template online (I've been searching ...
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Need suggestions on elements arrangement and picking colors
I'm making a new site, but I feel like colors or elements dimension aren't that good at all, I want it to look elegant and makes the user comfortable when looking at it. Right now I'm not getting that ...
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How does one design a children's book?
My dad one day decided to write a children's book, and my wife illustrated it. However, we've had some difficulties in putting the illustrations into a book format. What kinds of things should one ...
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Objective reasons to center or left-align tables and images within text columns?
First, let me emphasize that while I am asking a question about preference, I am looking for objective reasons to prefer one answer over another. I am not interested in your personal, subjective ...
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suggestions for ways to gain practical experience?
If this is not considered an appropriate question for this list (I couldn't quite tell from the FAQ), feel free to close it, but I could really use some specific, concrete advice. I passed the ACE ...
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design/ display user evaluation state's
Im looking to discuss ideas on how to represent the "evaluation of a user".
You the evaluator
Users to be evaluated
Based on score border around user profile is different color
How could this be ...
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Design “join page” and guide them graphically from left to rightside towards a join button
Im having this big horizontal bar see image above, and want to "guide (read force)" the users from reading the text on the left to clicking the join button on the right. Are there any thoughts on ...
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Is there a simple program to lay out images on a series of pages for linux?
I am constantly needing to print out pages with 4 graphs on one page or 2 graphs and a diagram, etc.. So far I have been using LibreOffice Draw to import the images and then manually lay them out on a ...
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iPad EPub layout landscape/portrait issue
I'm building a simple EPub with Indesign 5 to simply display a few images with a title above.
When I hold my iPad on portrait mode I have this (title above image which is what I want!):
When I ...
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How to create a PowerPoint slide template that enforces consistency across users within a group?
I have been asked to come up with a PowerPoint slide template for use by multiple speakers from a single group.
The key element that was requested is a footer. The footer should have some unifying ...
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Make sidebar menu clearer
I have created a sidebar for a client as requested.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/546/verwijspraktijksidebar.png/ :
The top bar - where on other pages menu items are shown - is left empty ...
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How to make a reference book easy to navigate?
I am assembling a reference book which has short entries arranged alphabetically. It also has a deep section hierarchy, e.g.:
A
Am
Amtrak
An
animals
bears
...
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list with links design
i have a site (no CMS platform) that has a list with links.
I have a list of 14 links. These links refer to pdf files. If someone want to
read the content of these pdf files, he must follow a certain ...
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Help with editing web design in existing Photoshop file
I have a PNG image which contains the header, footer, and content from an existing web site.
My client wants to make a new page using the existing design. I've got PNG files from them which I need to ...
