Mardi_Gras - 4:42 pm on May 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

<<Would these sites be designed for clients? or just for fun...>>

Tim - welcome to Webmaster World. As to your question above, I don't think you will find many people on this board designing sites for fun :)

Although they may try to have fun while still making a living.

As to your question that started this thread, I start by working out what the site needs to do and mapping a flow plan on paper. I give that to my artist (along with any existing key graphic and text elements), and she works out some drafts in Photoshop, then after client approval it moves on to the code guy.

For me, web design is much tougher than brochure design. Brochures have a set starting and ending point, and a straight path through. Web sites are much more complex, and sometimes I have trouble making sense of some of the complexities until we get some working links in place. Maybe I just don't visualize well :)

This approach works fine for my little marketing/consulting practice, but I don't do the volume or size of site that many on this board undertake.