It's extremely important to find out who will use a site, who's building it, and what its goals are. But after focusing, evaluation is all about anticipated user paths, logical process flows, and determining how to balance efficiency with ease of use. Presentation is as much about showing information as it is about showing information in a way that is understandable to each client's specific Web knowledge and thought process. Some people prefer paper, while others need to see things clicking and moving in order to make sense of it. Depending on your needs and preferences, the iDeveloperNetwork experts will use the various approaches.
Maps reflect navigation and main content buckets.
They are usually constructed to look like flow charts and show how users navigate from one section to another. Detailed maps that show what exists on each page and how content on some pages interacts with content on other pages. These may, or may not, reflect layout and are used mostly to inform the designer and the client exactly what information, links, content, promotional space, and navigation will be on every page of the site. Schematics also help illustrate priority. In some cases our experts do the outlining or story boarding functional prototypes, and in others they actually build prototypes with HTML, Flash, Director, or PowerPoint.