Hi, I am looking to redesign my site and have lot's of things in my mind. Right now I am just using pen/paper to design everything (like what I want to have and where). How do you people do this ? is there any free tool which can help you in designing your website ? Regards
That sounds like what I do, only difference is that I go around looking at others designs and try to gear it towards theirs on paper, of course I make a few adjustments and I also try a few color schemes with crayons.
Yes, on paper is the best for the time being. You can draw and rearrange pretty quickly. Get down all the table-width and stuff on paper. Worse if we just download a website directly (Save As.. HTML) because there may be a lot of codes and nested tables that we don't need.
I took a screenshot of my browser one day, then pasted that into the GIMP, gutted the actual content that was displayed (so that all the screenshot consisted of was the browser frame/chrome), then dropped a light-colored grid into the browser content area. Then I printed that 100x. Now whenever I need to create a Web site, I grab a sheet and sketch out rough boxes for each bit of content, plus maybe a logo. I'll iterate a dozen times in most cases, with little browser printouts littering the floor. -Tony
Same here - whenever I have an idea for a new website... out comes the spiral notebook. One page is used to sketch the layout of the site. Another page is used to jot other notes about the site... usuability, marketing, etc.
you could use photoshop for easy website design.. just make a picture of how your site layout and design should look , then cut it down and put it into tables
I believe this is the method graphic artists use. I open front page and play with the layout there, it is so easy to change colors etc. Once I like overall look I then make a style sheet and generate an html document for header, footer, menu, etc which I include in the pages to be generated. Shanon