Let's face it, planning is boring, right? It's way more fun to spend time digging into the HTML, fiddling with the style sheets, or tweaking the design, than it is to plan things. But planning can save you time and trouble later on. This article explains what you should think about before you jump into design.
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No matter how big the project, I always plan the thing. During my first years of development, I have never even thought about spending time on planning. Now that I have bigger projects, I have to plan everything in advance.
I am not working for customers anymore, but for a single company as a fulltime webdeveloper and internet marketing expert. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t have to work with plans. I always keep a printed copy of a sitemap in a drawer, and I have the site hierarchy printed out on a huge piece of paper, too. That way I know what will change on the site when I change some pages.
Just to add to the planning: a manual for the site is, in my opinion, as crucial as the planning before you start coding. Once you are done with the site, write a manual for it. Otherwise it can happen that you don’t understand the working of your site when the customer calls you after a year or so.
It’s good to see that the planning gets an article here. I have seen many “developers” (or people on their way to being a developer) just jumpstarting a website coding process, and they have really gotten hit hard when they realized that the project was bigger than they first thought.
Thanks Jenniffer.
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