The Webmasters’ Desk

Web Design From Scratch offers a great high level view of designing a site. Here’s the skinny:

1. Know what you’re doing
2. Know what the site needs to do
3. Know what the site’s visitors want
4. Get a good picture of the personality and style of the web site
5. Sketch out highly successful scenarios
6. Organise views into a site map
7. Sketch the essential features & look
8. Map your visitors’ attention
9. Arrange the visual elements to work together

I encourage everyone to re-read this article before every project (myself included).