Book review of "Web Design On A Shoestring" (free)
Carrie Bickner's book "Web Design On A Shoestring" is being much talked-about as a good blueprint for techniques, technologies and processes to get maximum-quality web sites on a minimal budget. DMXzone staffer Bruce Lawson reviews the book, and as a bonus, you can read chapter two of the book "The Pound Wise Project Plan".
Good Planning Pays
Now that you have your project goals, functional requirements, and technical requirements in place, you are ready to begin production. Your life will be much easier and your work much more efficient because you have taken the time to plan. You will have to make adjustments as you go, but with each shift you'll create good documentation. This will help you ask for more resources if you need them and will help you better allocate the resources that you do have.
This chapter is only the tip of the iceberg; there is much more to learn and discuss about site planning and the web production process. I have given you a few tools that will help you move into production, but if you have more time for study, I highly recommend Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works (New Riders Publishing, 2001), by Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler.
Bickner, WEB DESIGN ON A SHOESTRING, ISBN: 0-7357-1328-6,
Reproduced by permission on Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as New Riders
Publishing.
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Ian Blackham
Following a degree in Chemistry and a doctorate in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Ian spent several years wrestling with acronyms in industrial R&D (SEM with a side order of EDS, AFM and TEM augmented with a topping of XPS and SIMS and yet more SEM and TEM).
Feeling that he needed a career with more terminology but less high voltages, Ian became a technical/commissioning editor with Wrox Press working on books as diverse as Beg VB Application Development and Professional Java Security. After Wrox's dissolution and a few short term assignments Ian became content manager at DMXzone.
Ian is a refugee from the industrial Black Country having slipped across the border to live in Birmingham. In his spare time he helps out with the website of a local history society, tries to makes sure he does what his wife Kate says, and worries that the little 'un Noah is already more grown up than he is.
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