How Many Design Elements?
Figure 5.1. The Footbag Freaks Home Page Looking at the Footbag Freaks home page, we can easily identify the following seven design elements, indicated in Figure 5.1: • the top of the page where the Footbag Freaks logo appears against a colored background • the left-hand column where the site’s navigation is located • inside the navigation area, the text field for newsletter sign-up and related text • the large image area where the sun, the sky, and the hacky sack appear • the news area • the sponsor area • the footer where the copyright information appears The second page of the site eliminates the fourth design element from this list and adds a submenu navigation element inside the main navigation. So, each page type has seven design elements, six of which are common, and one of which is unique to each page.
