Blogging on Web Development, Graphic Design, and Internet Technology

Don’t Forget your Audience

I recently started a project for a jewelry artist. Basically a portfolio site with events, a bio, and a thumbnail gallery.

I knew the majority of her visitors wouldn't be very tech savvy, but I may have still over estimated their abilities. The site has a page with a thumbnail gallery of her work, you click a thumbnail and through jquery the photo enlarges to a full view. Unfortunantly the client came to me and said

Wireframing

Today we discussed wireframing in web II. Wireframing is the process in which we start to figure out site hierachy and navigation. It's very basic layout. We're not thinking about colors or visual elements yet. Wireframing is barebones layout. what pages link to what pages. How's the navigation going to be laid out, etc.