Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
Planning Your Work
Having a good plan in place before working on any project is price-
less. If you get into a project and find out that things weren
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A site wireframe is a
diagrammed skeleton of the
site itself. It contains all of
the navigation items and
how each one ties into or
connects with the others. By
looking at the wireframe,
you can see possible paths
of navigation and how
many pages deep a given
section of the site may go.
On some pages, you can
see processes that may
occur and a general outline
of the content, as well as
theimportanceofagiven
piece of content. Figure 9.3
is an example of a single
page from a site
wireframe.
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planned out quite well enough after spending a good amount of
hours on it, you just may find yourself in a very troublesome posi-
tion. You may find that you have to change so much in the site to
accommodate for the lack of planning that you end up reverting
back by half of the time already spent.
So where do you start to plan for your build? Discuss with the
artist on the project, of course. Before the artist designed and laid
out the site, there was already some planning in place. Planning of
whattheclientwantedtoaccomplish,awireframeofthesite,
possible paths that users might take to navigate the site, and so on.
That planning should have played a major role in how the site was
designed from a creative standpoint and that artist has a vision of
how it should all tie together.
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Figure 9.3
Example page from a site wireframe.
