When designing any space on the Web keep the page clean and—as stated in the design principles and techniques—aligned. So let's make the canvas grid viewable on the screen and set up some guidelines based on our wireframes.
With your new document still open on your computer, on the Inkscape main menu select View and then Grid.
You'll see that a blue grid will appear across the entire canvas area. We'll use these grids to create basic areas of our layout and then create guides to begin creating our actual layout elements.
Guides are lines on the screen that you will use for aligning i.e. guiding objects. These lines are only seen while you are working in Inkscape and we can set objects to "snap to" them when we are designing. Both of these simple tools (guides and the Snap to feature) will give you automatic alignment for the basic areas of your web page layout which in turn will help your web...