Chapter 4
Chapter 4: Taking a Position ..........................................................................................
In This Chapter
Making it all relative
Getting comfy with absolute placement
Offsetting positions
Stacking elements and adjusting opacity
P
erhaps the single most fundamental element of design is positioning. Say
someone hands you five objects and tells you to arrange them inside a
frame. The texture, color, or shape of those five objects doesn’t much matter.
If you’re talented, you can make them look good inside the frame by arranging
them in the best way.Positioning elements on a Web page is likewise crucial to the success of
that page. You don’t want people to think that the elements just fell there —
accidentally located wherever they happened to land.Several chapters in this book deal with positioning, but here you can get an
introduction to the basics of controlling Web page design.A simple Web page by default arranges its elements from top to bottom, piling
them one on top of another, against the left side of the page. Here are two
paragraphs, with a picture in between them:<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This Is The Headline</h1><P>
<IMG height=”292” width=”448” src=”lake.jpg” >
</P><P>This is paragraph two.</P>
</body>
</html>