Layout Design - Tang Chu Jing

Layout Design

     Layout design is refer to the services that concerned in making a structurepage that have all of the part that needed in an planned and effective way (Laura Wheeler, 1997). It also means layout is a structure that containsmain content areas in a single page. In the layout design included a default set of type styles, a basic page setup, a color scheme, and an image or a background image.

     In the site design page can have only one design, but you can choose difference layout for every page. Besides, the site design can help to establish the footer appear, site menu, page title, and site title for each page. On the other hand, a page layout can identify the main content of the page will appear to control the body.

     Each pagecontains three main areas. Each of these areas is the layout arranged in a certain pattern. A page layout will include a specific page title. When set up the website, you can choosethe favorite layout of each page, beside you also can change the layout anytime (Yahoo! Inc., Anon. 2012).

     Layout view is more visually sloping view, is not the "design" view. It is a very helpful view for locale the size of controls, or executes several tasks that have an effect on the usability of the form and visual conformation. Some of the task unable to achieve in layout view and may require to exchange to design view. In some cases, Access will show a message to inform you that you must exchange to Design view and make the specific changes.

     Design view provides a more comprehensive view of the structure form. While making the design changes, you cannot see the underlying data. Yet, there are some cases can achieve more easily in the Design view rather than in Layout view (Microsoft Corporation, Anon. 2013).

     Apart from the visual design basics, you also can get the creative layout of the site design. Design was more important than some creative ideas concrete realization. In the following 22 out-of-the-box layouts showcase is the collecting samples of creative design layouts with CSS or Javascript.

Below are the example for creating the draggable functionality layout design with "jQuery UI Draggable" in javascript (The jQuery Foundation, Anon. 2013).

This is a smooth scrolling with jQuery function (Jake Rocheleau 2013).

 

This is a horizontal and vertical centering of web design by using CSS inside the HTML webpage (David Storey 2013).

16 x Getting Creative With CSS

1. Magazine cover-style layout for his one-page-site.

2. A design uses boxes in a creative way.

3. A layout design uses a text and images with five-column grid to complete form and sense of order.

4. An ordinary Apple grid-layout with intuitive and scan able.
  

5. An article design focus on visual clarity and typography with a truly different route. Below are the three different layout designs.

6. A design uses JavaScript to slide between different parts of the site that giving the secondary meaning.

7. The design with one single illustration with all elements fit completely with each other and creating a sense of closure, balance and visual harmony.

8. A design that can be seamlessly incorporated in a complete and simple layout.

9. A design uses icons to specify different navigation options.

10. A design uses vertical and horizontal layout.

11. A design uses a common 3 column layout with unique looks and resembles a folder inside out a bunch of paper.

12. A design uses asymmetric positioned in an unusual style, but blocks of content appealing.

13. An effective background image that can help a layout be obvious.

14. It is a design of good use in white space and selects the different image sizes with negative or positive space used in the sidebar. And each element have properly aligned and clearly separated.

15. This is a non-linear layout design exactly separated the boxy structure and offers a simply research with arrangement of design elements to perform striking design solutions.

16. A creative design with an attractive and elegant layout.

6 x Getting Creative With CSS+JavaScript

1. This is a design about matching the navigation block look like "hang in the air". Inside the page have two columns, one of the layout look like normal because the cow located on the background for certain purpose. The second of the layout is realized with Javascript. Due to the background, it able to show out a 2D layout design.

2. In this design, it uses scroll effect and vivid background image to allow user to rapidly jump from one to another section. Besides using 20 different pages, this layout able combines all in one single page.

3. This is horizontal layout design also known as horizontal slider navigation. It is a combination of video, navigation, background images and content create the layout distinctive and unusual.

4. On this design element certain place are clickable and draggable. This is an irregular collection which is interesting and memorable to explore.

5. This design in a different ways by using a pannable user interface, but employing in JavaScript rather than in Flash. In this design allow users to drag and clock to pan the picture, or use the links that place around the content to move around.

6. In this collection the picture of a designer works look like someway loosely located on an invisible rope. While you clicked one of the picture, all the others elements place themselves in different way that the substance which will be becomes dominant.

Above are the all example of the out-of-the-box layouts showcase with Javascript and CSS (Vitaly Friedman 2008).

Conclusion

     In conclusion, layout design is a structure page that contains the main content areas in a single page. Through the sample above, I understand that in layout design it can have the direct message design, secondary meaning design, form and graphic impact to design the layout. Direct message mean for a viewer to read the picture or text type and get the direct message. Secondary meaning is the design that consists of hidden meaning of the layout design. Normally secondary meaning is to enhance the direct message. Form designs mean using the different foreign country and the national language or alphabet to form a layout. Graphic impact is a design that able to let user to feel on it. The sample of layout design above was created by CSS or Javascript. Before we need to create a creative design, we have to get an idea what design we need to create. By viewing the sample, we can easily get an idea of how to start to do the design. 

Reflection

From this research, I understand the layout design have so many type. Beside it also can create by CSS or Javascript. When creating the layout design with CSS or Javascript must combine with HTML coding, so that the coding only can function. Most of the Javascript design is done by jQuery. From the example above, I know the layout design can be done by using column grid design, typography design, visual clarity design, intuitive and scanable design, direct meaning or secondary meaning design, form design, graphic impact design, vertical or horizontal layout design, asymmetric design, magazine cover-style design, striking design, attractive and elegant background to display a 2D design, non-linear layout design, combination of video, navigation, background image and content design, clickable or draggable layout design, pannable layout design, invisible layout design and so on. By doing this research I able to know what is the best layout design that I can use to design the layout in my assignment 2. I may discuss with my group mate to use the 2D design or the visual clarity design on the next assignment.

References

Microsoft Corporation 2013, Understand Layout view and Design view [Online] Available At : http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/access-help/which-view-should-i-use-layout-view-or-design-view-HA010286483.aspx [Accessed 14 September 2013]

Yahoo! Inc. 2012, Difference between design and layout [Online] Available At : http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/yss/look/look-03.html [Accessed 14 September 2013]

The jQuery Foundation 2013,Draggable [Online] Available At : http://jqueryui.com/draggable/ [Accessed 24 September 2013]

Laura Wheeler 1997, Firelight Web Studio, Glossary of Terms, Layout design [Online] Available At : http://www.firelightwebstudio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=49 [Accessed 14 September 2013]

Vitaly Friedman 2008, Smashing Magazine,40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box[Online] Available At : http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/03/40-creative-design-layouts-getting-out-of-the-box/ [Accessed 15 September 2013]

David Storey2013, Smashing Magazine, Designing CSS Layouts With Flexbox Is As Easy As Pie[Online] Available At : http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/22/centering-elements-with-flexbox/[Accessed 24 September 2013]

Jake Rocheleau 2013, Design Shack, Code a Single-Page Sliding Website Layout With Fixed Navigation [Online] Available At :http://designshack.net/articles/javascript/single-page-sliding-website-layout-fixed-nav/ [Accessed 24 September 2013]