Columns in Weebly

In the article about Layout we suggest that columns are the best way to split up text, pictures, videos and so on. It takes a touch of imagination to make Weebly create columns.

Columns

It is easier to read text in columns.

People do not read web pages as they do books, rather they scan websites as they do newspapers. They look for anything of interest to themselves.

It makes good sense to split your web pages into columns just like a newspaper.

In Weebly

The Weebly tool you need is Two Column Layout which can be dragged onto the page, where it acts as a container into which you can drag any other type of element such as a paragraph or a picture.

Its limitation is that it always creates a pair of equal width columns. But you can drag one Two Column Layout element into another ...

This example page effectively uses four columns: one for the index and three for content. The Weebly theme takes care of placing the menu. For the content area ...

We first dragged a Two Column Layout element onto it.

Then dragged another Two Column Layout element into the left-hand column .

After that  paragraph and picture elements were dragged into the spaces defined by the layout elements.

TThere are nine pages in this series of detailed Weebly tips:

They support general articles on web design for film-making and AV club websites which begin here.

[Weebly frequently update and improve their system. These pages are based on tests in November 2010.]