Web site design planning
Another gem of an article at A list Apart. Avoid the desire in a web site design process to just jump into doing the visual page design, and plan carefully. If you don’t, for anything more complex than a basic brochure site, you WILL end up with a tangled site difficult and time consuming to maintain.
A List Apart: Articles: Avoid Edge Cases by Designing Up Front
- Assess objectives and requirements
- Conduct scenarios
- Produce wireframes (and establish site architecture)
- Produce sketches, comps, and (if necessary) prototypes
- Draft the style guide
- Produce templates and stylesheets
- Write code
- Test presentation and behavior
- Reconcile test results, if possible
- Publish
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