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Originally Posted by zpivat  When you design a website/template/layout, what are your thought process? I'm interested to know how you'd go about doing it?
For example, do you first create a storyboard on paper, and then translate everything into Photoshop, then slice the image using the slice tool, and then do the rest of the customised coding?
Or do you create the HTML code on the fly, right on Notepad/Dreamweaver? |
I've done both, depending on whether I want an artsy-fartsy design or a fast, usable design. Most of my Web sites are for personal pages or small businesses, so I haven't had to deal with large repositories of frequently updated corporate information. I'm starting to get into that a little bit, though, with a nonprofit I'm a member of.
I've recently started taking a third route that's also better for bigger installations: full open-source packages. Moveable Type, Joomla, phpBB, etc. Really fun! It's amazing what you can find out there.
And on a side note, CSS Zen Garden is the most fabulous Web site ever.
Edit: On another side note, I'm not sure Moveable Type is open source anymore. Now that it's been acquired by SixApart (great company!), it's not free, either.