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Part Three: Design

Before you begin designing a Web site, you must propose a plan that outlines how you are re-conceiving of the project and how you will go about accomplishing the details that you have proposed.

Back to Phase Two: Information Architecture

I: This step involves:

1. Full Site Design in Photoshop: Creating an Expanded Mockup, make all headings and graphics that will be involved in the interface design.

2. Using Pull Down Guides: use guides to plan how your design will be deconstructed and reconstructed into tables

II: BUT Think about it first

Don't just start making something in Photoshop, think about what kind of a layout will work best given the constraints of HTML?

1. What's Involved in Building a Web Site consider how you will use tables, a background image, and copy and how to work in Photoshop on a Web design

2. Things to Consider Before you Design in Photoshop: Think about these 5 issues first

3. Creating a Mockup in Photoshop: design, resolution, uniformity

Next Section: Part Four, Optimizing and Exporting with Fireworks