How Will The Placeholder Function On The Page?

The placeholder, not to be confused with the placeholder definition, is simply a mark on the page in the Designer application. Placeholders are just conceptual boundaries in Designer.

Placeholder as seen in Designer

As you see in Figure, the placeholder is just a marker, using the word "placeholder" and also lists the name of the placeholder. The actual amount of space that a placeholder uses on a web page is determined by the size of the content placed in it.

The data associated with the placeholder depends on which page the placeholder is on, which happens after the site structure is complete and you begin to place content in the sections of the Web site.

It is the placeholder definition that determines how the placeholder functions, and what the placeholder contains. This means that you should view the placeholder as an available section for you to use and reuse content in broad areas. It is common to have a page template, for instance, with only the navigation and the header image and nothing but a placeholder in between.

In Figure, there is only a banner, a side navigation piece that is a fragment, and the placeholder. All of it is arranged using a table. This basic design could reliably be used as the entire structure of a Web site, depending on how you use the placeholder.

This placeholder would then be easily replaced on any number of pages with the content specific to those pages. The content can be broken down into smaller placeholders if your design planning has led you to create a site based on a minimal number of page templates and using multiple placeholders and subtemplates in different ways.