Archive for September, 2009

Even for a simple site like this one, it’s worth drawing an architecture diagram to make you plan out the site’s structure before you start creating graphics and code. An architecture diagram also lets you see the balance of content between the various areas of the site, and forces you to consider what the... »

The nature of developing with CSS means that we can turn a wireframe into a working prototype Web page without the visual design being completed. In the case of icyou.com, which we saw earlier, I first coded a CSS prototype with the basic layout of the key pages, but focused only on the content... »

At the Voices that Matter Conference in San Francisco in October 2007, I heard several designers ask if this structure-driven approach could work for them, as they always start from the visual design of the page and then build from there. First, I think the structural and presentational aspects of the design can develop... »