Anyone have a design time checklist for crafting CSS template pages?

My Concern: I don't know all the questions to ask or issues to address

[Webwork]

Does anyone have a checklist - mental or written - that you look to at (template) design time to help guide you and/or a client?

Something like a design time list that helps you to avoid overlooking important design considerations?

I'm not looking for answers to design time questions. Rather, I am asking: What questions do you ask yourself or ask clients at design time?

To be specific about my request, by "checklist" I mean something along the lines that I've been working on in a thread at the WW database forum: [webmasterworld.com...]

Here and now, in the CSS Forum, I'm not looking at a building a "total design" checklist, though I know that's essential. Clearly, in the case of a complex interactive website, an issue list would require the input of many experts.

In the CSS Forum what I asking for is input on the creation of a visual design and/or presentation checklist.

[fish_eye]

Not sure if this directly addresses your problem - but you may want to look at / take into account Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 [w3.org]. It's still a working document but better worded than its predecessor. There is a checklist that goes with it.

There are some sound and often overlooked ideas in there (not specifically CSS but it's CSS where I implement these structures / policies). You can at least ask yourself "Are these important"? If they are then you may want to find a way of (or seek assistance in) convincing your client that they are worth the tiny extra cost.

There was also an excellent thread recently (in the Supporters Forum) Attracting "Silver Surfers" (What on-page elements appeal [to] the older demographic) [webmasterworld.com] (msg45 summarises - just in case the link above does not take you to it directly).

Don't be mislead by the titles / seeming topic areas of these resources. Do it right for the "older set" and you are sure to at least make it usable - and in most cases attractive - for all.