[thelist] starting a website
Ben Henick
persist1_pdx at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 10 17:54:43 CDT 2000
--- Shoshannah Forbes <xslf at xslf.com> wrote:
> From: "Theodore Serbinski" <need-4-speed-ski at erols.com>
> > What do you do when you are first creating a design with a website?
> > Do you just start with a raw html file and code away? Do you use
> dreamweaver
> > and just start moving things around until it looks pretty?
> Something else?
>
> Here is what I do:
> * Talk to the client and as a million questions, to get an idea about
> what
> the hell I want to make.
> * Fire up Photoshop and play in it until I get something I like and
<anip>
Of all the responses to the question, Shoshannah's is the closest to my
own method.
1. What's your mission? [Get past the "duh" stage.]
2. Who's your audience? [Again.]
3. If you have a choice, how do want the site to stand out? [In
other words, if you're gonna nickel-dime me, you better give me
something now or forever hold your peace.]
4. Add a cup of common sense to these responses. Ferment for a week.
This is the part of the stage where I use pencil-and-paper if I use
them at all, though I can't draw fer #$^%.
5. Spool up Photoshop.
Point is, I don't do a whole lot of visual work until everything is
figured out upstairs. And then I run straight to Photoshop and
(generally) I work with colors BEFORE layout.
Generally: I decide on a theme. I choose colors and devices for that
theme, and THEN I decide what consititutes the best use of resources
(esp. bandwidth) and take the layout from there.
And for myself I think I'm gonna move from a 3-comp SOP to a 5-comp SOP
'cause when I think about it, it occurs to me that I don't generally
hit my stride until the 3rd comp most times, anyway. The first two can
then go into the "died a-borning" folder to be pulled out and massaged
for another project several weeks or months down the line.
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Web Author At-Large | what they aim at. Therefore,
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