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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Yah, everyone seems to have summed up most of what I would have said, although I'd like to elaborate on Suho's planning comments. The whole planning issue doesn?t get breached very often in this forum and I think it?s one of the most important issues that many people overlook or take for granted so I?d like to elaborate on this point for a bit? Planning is the most important part of any website, personal or otherwise. Personal websites can be a little more hap hazard but you still need a plan. After all a website is a document (in most cases), and if you've ever written a paper for school without planning it out first your likely to get crappy grades as it contains no order or structure. I always start my designs on paper (unless it's a group effort -- then white boards are infinitely handy, especially those funky ones that can print out what you all sketch up). Using paper seems a bit wasteful with such a versatile tool like a computer, but a pencil and an eraser is a very fast tool for outlining your a website structure. The outline is the most important, usually in the form of a flowchart that can double as a model for the site navigation. Then I usually move onto the visual design sketches and the last part of the job is finished off on the computer. Although there is usually some amount of go-between from the computer and my sketch books as I experiment with different ideas, but that happen more with highly interactive works. You don?t have to get too detailed with the design sketches, but pencil and paper it a really quick tool to block out lots of ideas in a short amount of time. I usually just stick to really quick and thumbnail sketches. Most of my design diaries are full of these ? on average I chew through a 120 A4 diary in 2 to 3 months with several sketches / doodles on each page. In any event - for any size website, actually for anything you make with a computer, sketch and plan it out first. It may seem a little pointless at first but having a clear site map in your hand whilst you fiddle away in Photoshop or your HTML editor really helps. It's also an effective way to identify any possible design or information architecture flaws in your ideas before you've killed too many precious time sheet hours working yourself into an unforseen dead end. Edit: Coffee fuled fingers care not for spelling. [This message has been edited by Cameron (edited 11-16-2003).] Loading...
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