Storyboarding & Wireframing
Here is an article about “storyboarding” for website development: http://www.grokdotcom.com/storyboard.htm, and one about wireframing:http://www.grokdotcom.com/wireframing.htm I’ve always done this myself. With any web project I start by considering the needs of my clients customers and what they would need and want out of the website. I come up with the main categories and topics and determine how the website should be categorized by drawing various wireframes to illustrate the possible paths of navigations. In regards to e-commerce sites especially larger ones that depend on organizing a database of products into groups and subgroups, I like to think of the site in levels. That is how many levels from the landing page to the actual shopping cart. Then I draw thumbnail sketches of each level. Doing so gets me thinking about ease of navigation and how the site might come together. I often find myself doing a few revisions before settling on something. That is the point of doing this. Also, it is for the client, so that he knows you have a plan, and you can dive into the project with the confidence, that the client has approved your concepts. It’s worth your time from the begining to brainstorm and do a few thumbnail sketches, than to consider one or more revisions of the final product.
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