Setting the Stage: Planning a Web Development Project
You have a potential project that has just dropped into your lap. The client (or your boss) asks you the deadly question: 'How much time is this going to take, and how much is it going to cost?' What...
View ArticleWeb Design: Define the Purpose
What's the 'mission' of your site? This is the first and, perhaps, most important question to answer before you embark on developing your site.
View ArticleSite Planning Basics: What You Should Know Before You Design a Site
Good sites don't start in a web creation program, they start in your head. Before you even touch your web software, you need to get in touch with the reasons why you want to build a site and what you...
View ArticleDesigning Through the Storm
As designers, we all face the inevitable slump. That point where our creativity stagnates and we find ourselves at a dead end. Walter Stevenson offers suggestions on staying productive and creative.
View ArticleWeb Design for Small Companies: Pretend that You Have a Programmer
Now that the World Wide Web is an established means of business communication and the technology has evolved with it, site designs are looking slicker than ever. You may find that your own...
View ArticleYour Site's Goals
Of course, the ideal solution is a win-win, where you achieve your goal at the same time as enabling your visitors to reach theirs. This section of the site introduces some tools to help find win-win...
View ArticleYour Site's Goals
If you already have a web site, or you have a site project in mind, what needs does it fulfil? How many different needs are there? How strong are they? Your job as a web site designer is to craft a...
View ArticleYour Goal
You are on this web site because you have a goal. You may be in the process of designing or updating a web site. You may be developing your professional skills. Either way, there is some state that you...
View ArticleAbout Goals
I believe that the best way to design web sites is to bear in mind the goals of the site and its users.
View ArticleWireframing With Patterns
Wireframes can comprise many different patterns, each of which is a discrete element that provides specific functionality and may include instructive copy, images, text fields, buttons, links,...
View ArticleQuick CSS Mockups with Photoshop
You need to make a set of web design mockups for your client. You'd like to find an easy way to show these mockups in clean XHTML and CSS code, because plain JPGs don't convey the full sense of the...
View ArticleSteps of Web Site Development
Development and maintenance of a good Web site implies many consecutive steps involving various actors. These actors all have their own objectives and understanding of the process, but all are...
View ArticleThinking in the Right Terms: 7 Components for a Successful Web Site Redesign
Teams who focus on the long term are far more likely to create designs that really pay off for the organization. Short-term thinking gets the design done, but the team ends up doing it all over again...
View ArticleThe Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch
Companies would often hire new outside firms to create and execute these new designs, abandoning the firm that made the previous design. The new firms would try to top the existing design with...
View ArticleGantt to Glory: Evolving from Project Management to Successful Web Operations
Is the sheer possession of a PMP intended to be the Holy Grail of successful web projects, known to fail at a startling rate, or simply a way to divorce oneself from whatever outcome may result from...
View ArticleDeveloping Trends and Challenges for the Information Industry Examined in the...
This paper examines emerging trends in the information industry that are likely to be of interest to information professionals during 2008. These include web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, social networking,...
View ArticleYou Need a Five-Year Plan for Your Website
Websites change the way an organization communicates with its staff, customers, investors and general public. A change in communication is a major shift for the organization. To effectively implement...
View ArticlePrototyping with XHTML
Looking for another way of realizing your design deliverables? XHTML are easy to code, can double as specifications, and create constraints that increase design effectiveness.
View ArticleTwenty Signs You Don’t Want that Web Design Project
Most clients are good clients, and some clients are great clients. But some jobs are just never going to work out well. Herewith, a few indicators that a project may be headed to the toilet.
View ArticleCreating a Site Design Plan
All the books tell me to set goals for my site. OK. They say that those goals need to be measurable and definite. Fine. But asking my client, “What are the site’s goals?” never seemed to get me what I...
View ArticleRolling Out a Social Media Strategy
So you have you’re social media strategy, now what? If you’re like most organizations then you can’t roll out a social media campaign in a day, or even in a few weeks. So how do you go about rolling...
View ArticleWhy Stylesheet Abstraction Matters
CSS is simple. You assign style primitives to elements and some of those primitives cascade down to the elements contained within. I get it. It’s simple to understand. But CSS is not simple to use or...
View ArticleWhat to Do Before Your Site Goes Public: 15 Things
I know what it’s like. You’ve worked so hard on that website of yours, and you just want to get it out there, for everyone to see, but take heed, young one, as there is much you have to sort out before...
View ArticleFive Ways the Face of the Web will Change
The web is pretty ubiquitous; it’s basically everywhere you go nowadays, from our phones to our computers giving us an almost constant connection to the net. The internet itself has close to 2 billion...
View ArticleDesign Trends for 2010: Web Development Trends for 2010
Trends appear and disappear. Here are some of web development trends that will dominate during the 2010. I’m covering 5 trends regarding the web development. From real-time web and collaboration to...
View ArticleWhat’s Next in Web Design?
Thinking about what’s next online is fun because everything you wish to come true will come true. While commercial products obey to the laws of the market, which in part are influenced by the resources...
View ArticleIl Web Sarà Elementare
La Rete oggi è disegnata in modo confuso e poco amichevole per gli utenti. Ma la svolta è dietro l'angolo. Parola di un grande architetto di siti.
View ArticleNineteen Important Factors Before Launching Your Website
When launching a website many developers often forget some factors that should be consider before making everything public. This article reviews some of the important factors many forget during the web...
View ArticleStarting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way
So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or forgotten altogether: content planning....
View ArticleFor a Future-Friendly Web
No one knows what the landscape will look like even just two years down the road, so it would be foolish to say that we can create anything that is truly future proof. But while there aren’t...
View ArticleA Practical Approach to Web Site Design
Successful Web site design is accomplished by a team of professionals who: Define the business requirements for the site; Analyze the audiences; Collect content; Organize the site information; Develop...
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