The layout of your website can be a deciding factor on whether your visitors will stay on your website or leave with an impatient click. You could think of the layout as a map. If it's easy for the visitors to "read" the map, they are more likely to stick around and find the content you're providing. Let's take a look at some of the typical layouts we see on the Web today.
When we're designing a layout for a web page, there are a number of sections that we need to include. These sections can be broken into the following:
Consistent content: This does not change throughout the site. Examples of this type of content are logos, navigation bars, and footers.
Changing content: This is the part of the page that changes throughout the site, usually the main content. In some situations, the content of the sidebar may also change.
A web designer's job is to create a layout that keeps the visitor focused on the content while keeping it nice and easy to navigate around...