| This book has been conceived to help you with the process of designing a website by providing the structured framework of a website design methodology. It does not give tutorials in technical work, such as HTML or DHTML, in editing images or other media, in setting up database processing, or in scripting. Other books do this very well already.
The scope of this book is to explain the context of the website design activity and to provide easy-to-follow steps in the process of website design itself supported by a comprehensive set of design documentation tools. It gives you the structure to apply your technical, analytical, and creative skills in a very effective and focussed manner. The approach described in the book is relevant for individual and team designer/developers and for any type of website envisaged.
emphasis on balancing the identification of detailed design needs with the derivation of closely associated design ideas to satisfy those needs. There is also equal weight given to optimising aesthetic, usability, and purpose characteristics of the target website. Each of these aspects is considered important and vital for success.
The process described aims to help you achieve real tangible benefits in terms of websites that are appropriate and successful – matching detailed identified needs and desires through careful and thorough design. New perspectives on website usability and aesthetics are also explored and discussed in dedicated chapters.
The book describes the background and context of BWD, as well as working through the implementation of the methodology in detail, step by step.
The process described in this book has been given the name ‘Balanced approach is needed for any design and implementation project to be successful. More specifically, the process described has a substantial Website Design’ (BWD), the notion partly being that a holistic balanced |