Chapter 3 - Site Planning
A good web site design requires a detailed initial planning phase. Before starting to code your site, pick up a pencil and paper and sketch out your site design. Creating the stylistic conventions and conceptual structure of your site beforehand saves time during development. Whether you are creating a single personal web site or working on a professional web development team, you save time and improve quality by thoroughly planning the site design and development process before you start creating it. This chapter walks you through planning and building a framework for your site, resulting in more efficient development when you build your web site.
When you complete this chapter, you will be able to:
- Understand the web site development process
- Create a site specification
- Identify the content goal
- Analyze your audience
- Build a web site development team
- Create conventions for filenames and URLs
- Create conventions for filenames and URLs
- Set a directory structure
- Create a site storyboard
- Publish your web site
- Test your web site
