Alignment
Alignment is the art of placing elements in a layout.
Alignment is the deliberate placement of page content with a visual connection to something else on the page. In other words, nothing should be placed on the page arbitrarily. Some alignment conventions should be avoided: following the basics as an unbreakable rule, centering everything, and getting beyond just picking center, left, right, or justified. Consider the following restraints when working with alignment:
- use as few as alignments as possible for any one layout
- use differing alignments carefully because they can be disruptive
- try to repeat the alignments from page to page within a web site
In some situations, one way to take advantage of alignment is to understand its pervasive nature and to break one page element out of the default alignment.
