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myOtaku.com: Adam

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

This is the process we're using for the new theOtaku:

Step 1: Interface Design
I made a wire frame rough layout of what elements the site will have.

Step 2: Graphic Design
James used the wire frame as a guide and designed on top of it, creating images

Step 3: HTML/CSS Splicing
This is the tricky part...Our HTML/CSS guru will take James' design and interpret it using the latest front end techniques.

Step 4: Back-And-Forth
Me, James, and the HTML/CSS guru will have a back and forth. Our HTML/CSS guru is also a design whiz so he'll no doubt have a ton of ideas as well. "Can we change the color here" - "Can we create a mouse over effect" - "can we make comments a little wider?" - etc., etc.

Step 5: Development
Someone will then dive into theOtaku's code and wrap the new design around the content. This will certainly require a ton of editing and will also invoke back and forths - "the way this HTML is set makes it impossible to program around" - "we could do it this way but it'll take 50 hours of extra work"

One thing I want to do is, before spending all the time wrapping the design around our code, is to poll people comparing the new design to both the current design AND to other sites online in the anime field....if a majority of people don't think we're at least as good then we need to spend more time...

I'm sleepy just thinking about it...
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