Talk:Web design/Web design (rewrite)

message: Note: This reflects my progress in rewriting the article on Web design, which I am working on in parallel with similar work on the Web development article.
* Using the proposed outline for Web development as the model for this page, I have created an initial high-level taxonomy for Web design, which is almost certainly incomplete. 
* I believe I have now allocated all the existing content to this new article. Please let me know if you notice anything missing, or think that something is in the wrong place.
* Next what we have here must be edited for continuity and internal consistency.
* We also need to create stubs for the empty sections. 
For more details of how to participate in this discussion, see the Talk:Web design page. But please go ahead and make minor edits here, if you see something that needs fixing. Chris Loosley 19:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

message: I think this existing material can be reworked a bit to produce a good introduction. It needs to better reflect the diverse products of Web design -- pages, sites, blogs, consumer and business applications, Web services, and ... (what have I forgotten?). Chris Loosley 22:45, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

message: It would be nice if we could present Web design as a particular instance of software design, but unfortunately the software design article also needs to be rewritten. See discussion on its Talk page. I am not volunteering to do that. So I think this section will largely have to stand alone. Chris Loosley 22:45, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is fine, but I think functional design should be mentioned somewhere in the article if not the "see also" section. -- comment by Oicumayberight, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Website design crosses multiple disciplines of information systems, information technology and communication design. The website is an information system whose components are sometimes classified as front-end and back-end. The observable content (e.g page layout, user interface, graphics, text, audio) is known as the front-end. The back-end comprises the organization and efficiency of the source code, invisible scripted functions, and the server-side components that process the output from the front-end. Depending on the size of a Web development project, it may be carried out by a multi-skilled individual (sometimes called a web master), or a project manager may oversee collaborative design between group members with specialized skills.
===Small-scale and large-scale Web development===
These ideas (copied from the Web development rewrite) will be revised to say something similar about Design. Chris Loosley 07:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Web design process

message: These ideas (copied from the Web development rewrite) will be revised to say something similar about Design. Chris Loosley 07:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Small-scale and large-scale Web development

message: This section is a place-holder for new introductory material. Chris Loosley 07:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Web design activities

message: Refer to the importance of design decisions, because interactions with a Web site or Web application are an aspect of customer experience. Chris Loosley 20:16, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Design and the requirements phase

message: This section is currently unchanged from the present article. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Purpose

message: This section is currently unchanged from the present article. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Audience

message: ===Content===
This section is currently unchanged from the present article. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Conceptual design phase

message: This section is currently unchanged from the present article. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Content

message: Information Architecture will be addressed in this section, maybe with a reference to Interaction design. Chris Loosley 19:39, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Information Architecture

message: ===Storyboarding===
This section is unchanged from the present article. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mockups and Prototyping phase

message: This section is unchanged from the present article. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Storyboarding

message: ===CSS versus tables===
I moved this material to the Web development rewrite. Chris Loosley 04:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Design and the production phase

message: I moved this material to the Web development rewrite. Chris Loosley 04:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: CSS versus tables

message: I moved this material to the Web development rewrite.  Chris Loosley 04:11, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Flash

message: I have moved this section of the present article to the Web development rewrite. Chris Loosley 06:34, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Static and dynamic page generation

message: This section should discuss evaluating design decisions through pre- and post-launch testing. It may refer to software testing, quality assurance, usability testing. Chris Loosley 20:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Design and the launch phase

message: This article should contain short sections on each of these topics, but in most (maybe all?) cases those sections would link to a separate article. This is the list from Web development; I expect the design list will also contain some of these, plus new topics. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Concerns that span development phases

message: ====Lack of collaboration in design====
This section is currently unchanged from the present article. It should be generalized to include iterative processes and agile development methods. Chris Loosley 07:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Project Management

message: This section is currently unchanged from the present article. It should be generalized to include iterative processes and agile development methods. Chris Loosley 07:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lack of collaboration in design

message: Eventually there will be more subheadings under Usability, since it is a major design concern. Chris Loosley 07:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Usability

message: This section is currently unchanged from the present article. I am going to leave it here, but edit it to refer to the discussions of CSS vs. tables and Flash, which -- because they concern implementation technologies -- I am moving to the Web development article. Chris Loosley 02:50, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Liquid versus fixed layouts

message: This section is unchanged from the present article. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Compatibility and restrictions

message: ====How it Looks vs. How it Works====
This is the first paragraph of a section in the present article. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Findability

message: This is the first paragraph of a section in the present article. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How it Looks vs. How it Works

message: The following paragraph is currently unchanged from the present article. It is the second paragraph of 'How it Looks vs. How it Works'  Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Performance

message: I moved this material to the Web development rewrite, and replaced it with an introductory sentence. Chris Loosley 03:35, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Accessibility

message: I favor moving this section towards the end of the article -- comments? Chris Loosley 22:45, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: History of Web Design

message: This section is currently unchanged from the present article. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: See also

message: This section is unchanged from the present article. Chris Loosley 06:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: These four introductory paragraphs are currently unchanged from the present article. I think most of it is more detailed than we need in an introduction, and will probably be merged into the body of the article, moved to the Web Development rewrite, moved to another page, or deleted altogether as we rewrite.  Chris Loosley 07:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website design