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« on: 18 January 2010, 13:49:40 »

Something a little different this time.

Have a read of the following article, and tell me your thoughts.

http://24ways.org/2009/make-your-mockup-in-markup
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« Reply #1 on: 18 January 2010, 14:06:57 »

An absolutely fantastic article, and one that brings together many of the thoughts I've had during the design stage of making a web page.  I always prefer to show clients an HTML page rather than a single image, because they always look different - it's a fact of life.  I'm also a strong advocate of not getting hung up about differences in rendering across the different browsers, so long as the site still looks good in all of them.  Why pander to Microsoft anyway?
Great find, Scott - one for the bookmarks folder Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: 19 January 2010, 09:55:43 »

Mmm interesting. 

Personally I always start with good old fashioned pencil and paper.  Then I type up the basic content in html - no styling.  Normally I then revise my pencil sketches making changes I have thought about why mucking about with the actual content.  Next I open up corel draw and create various backgrounds and such, although I have never bothered with a full mock-up.  Then I style the basic content using css. 

I have found that this approach allows me the fastest turn around time.  The fact is I design around the html content rather than fit the content around my design.

This method also works well with clients.  The can't normally imagine how a picture can become a webpage so it is just easier to show them a functional web page.  I then make changes if they ask.  This method also normally means I can to some degree side step peoples odd frontpage type requests because I am showing a working alternative, which they can then get their head around!

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