Layout is the total construction of a document, the composition of visual elements are placed on the canvas space. In Web design we are often working with multimedia: text, illustrations, photographs, video, audio, interactions. Let's look at how some of these media can be composed in a layout. We will go over the following:

1. The Box Object-Model
   
2. Text
3. Illustrations and Photographs
4. Video
   

CC By-NC 2008, Jared Stein. Web Design, http://jaredstein.org/courses/web-design/