website design Q

[Torniquet]

mainly pointed @ those of you who have made or are making websites.

do you think it is easier to get the base coding / content done for your website then tackeling the graphical look and feel of the site? or do you try to make the page look how you want it as you write the content?

[Sakar]

I setup all my DIV tags then go in and start coding all the functionality. After that's done I begin on the art for the site.

[Noctrine]

My process is:

Backend Coding
Front End Backend Interface
Rough orientation (mostly assigning margins or floats)

Loop till finished with site


Make shiny.

[jpoisson]

my method is :

first photoshop the way I want the website to look, then I cod the site based on my complete design, This allows me to already have the images and know what the final product should look like.

[hallsofvallhalla]

my method is to find someone currently building a website. Fly to their house. Chloroform them, tie them up, steal the website, claim it as my own.

has worked well so far.

[Perry]

my method is to find someone currently building a website. Fly to their house. Chloroform them, tie them up, steal the website, claim it as my own.

has worked well so far.

Wow i do the same thing and have been trying to hijack this place for weeks but i cant find your house so i have put all my resources into my teleportation machine... which isn't going so well

[hallsofvallhalla]

muhhahahahaha

[Falken]

This is how I do it:

1. Try to think of a good name
2. Rough design on paper/photoshop
3. Make several designs in photoshop until you are happy with it, while still thinking of a good name
4. Make design of the different sub pages layouts in photoshop
5. Write the layout in XHTML & CSS, and also came up with a great name
6. Adjust the layout to work in all browsers
7. Write the database design on paper
8. "Convert" the database scheme from paper form to digital
9. Write most of the user php code, and realizing the domain for my great name is already taken
10. Write all the admin pages...boring! :p
11. Fix some bugs, and think of a new name
12. Fix some more bugs
13. Launch the site, using a not so good name

Altho most of my projects come to a halt at step 9...so boring making admin pages when you want to show the page to the world :p

[Noctrine]

Names are last... always. If I try and find a good name for something it will never get done.

[Hutch]

Names are last... always. If I try and find a good name for something it will never get done.

I agree, the name comes last for me when I am making a site. Paper is a good thing. I like to have the content that I want on the page figured out and I work around that.