Posts tagged with 'Jason Fried'

The inside-out guide to designing a website

Designing websites inside-out When starting out on a new web project it is tempting to begin the wireframing process at the homepage, which is surely the most important page on your website.

But I’ve found that this approach doesn’t work for me. And for that matter I don’t believe that the homepage is the single most important page either!

Starting with the homepage is a little bit like drawing the cover of your novel, before you start writing the first chapter. It’s the story that counts, and until you know more about the story – the content – then how can you decide what to draw? You know what they say about judging books by their covers, perhaps because illustrators don’t read them before they get to work.

It’s the same with websites… isn’t it better to consider what’s contained within before working out how the homepage might look?