Monday, April 4, 2011

Designing the website!!

Designing a site is hell of a work...specially if its of a fairly big level and more so if you are the only one maintaining the site and your php and html sucks!!!
So, from my experience I have come up with some tips that I am gonna use for myself...I will be using it for myself and then if it works then i will be sharing it with others...

well to start with, first things first....
always have the blueprint of your website with you...some call it template, some call it wireframes...its basically the same....the structure of your site designed with some graphical design software like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator...with this in hand, you have defined your direction and ready to blast off...

then, taking your wireframe as the standard, start coding for the menu...if you don't know how to code then use the programs like dreamweaver...

then come the side bars...code for them and get them done...

then you code for the main body....generally you don't have to make any changes to them...but sometimes your wireframe requires you to mod them a little bit....

then you design your content creating application using modules like the CCK in the drupal....

I think if thing proceed in this way....that is broken into pieces and each piece completed, and then all the pieces put together the designing part will be completed leaving only the content creation part remaining...so I think that is pretty much it....


good luck with the project :)

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