page layout exercise although most of us think of "reading" as a left to right, top to bottom of the page experience, people typically read in a much more complicated fashion. they scan pages, finding important elements to focus on and relegating other elements to lesser status, sometimes not even bothering to read some elements at all. this is true of readers of nearly any ability, from novice to expert. from the time of your birth onward, throughout your informal and formal education, including things like kindergarten classes and library story hours, you've spent enormous amounts of time learning how to "read" pages and screens. (this learning is primarily experience based, so in many cases we're not even aware of what we're doing or why. but that doesn't lessen its effect on how people process pages and screens to build understanding.) for this exercise, i'd like you to form teams to work on a project that will test your skills at applying the page/screen structuring principles we've discussed in our workshop. you'll take a single page of relatively unstructured text (that is, the text you're reading right now--click this link to download the file) and structure the page in dreamweaver. you can make minor edits to the text (changes, deletions, additions), but in general i'd like you to concentrate hard on using basic HTML (strong, emphasis, lists of various sorts, heading styles). you can also reorder sections of this document as necessary to move material from one section to another or change the ordering in other ways as needed and required. we'll spend approximately twenty minutes on the structuring work, then share our designs with each other and discuss what principles (and techniques) we applied and why.