website development guidelines
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- Amicus
hi... anyone seen some good examples that are easy to follow?
I've designed a pretty comprehensive site that I want to send off to developers to be coded including using Joomla or another fairly robust CMS with heaps of features.
I want to create a document explaining the functionality and features so that the developers and anyone maintaining or upgrading the site in future doesn't get into too much strife.
thanks again fellow Qbeaners
- studderine0
what you could do, is take screenshots of the design and annotate the behaviors and functionalities for particular widgets within the design. that way, the developers have a visual reference as well as text explaining the design. get it?
- well that's obvious, but I guess the main thing I'm looking for is to use common terminology and make sure I don't leave too much out.Amicus
- That's what I usually do.NoFavorite
- ...don't leave too much out.Amicus
- amicus, is it that obvious? your post didn't indicate that you thought about this...so i recommended it.studderine
- Amicus0
I've tried google but didn't find the kind of doc I'm looking for.
- Gucci0
A PDF with notes on the areas should do the trick, no?
- studderine0
^ you probably won't , but i think i have something up my sleeve..let me see.
- mikabast0
UML? :-)
- Amicus0
Did you find anything Studderine? I'm flying a little blind as I've gone from print design to hand coding simple sites myself (back in '98/99) to print and now doing a bit of everything design without a thorough understanding of CSS or Javascript let alone JQuery, AS3 and the like.
- dude, i feel asleep...my bad! let me look through my external drive for one i did at work a while ago.studderine
- i couldn't find my example man. sorry.studderine
- dajaniel0
Amicus I think a good developer will be able to get it pretty quickly with basic illustrations and be able to ask the right questions where things are unclear... But be sure not to use any off-shore development companies since they most definitely won't.
- kalkal0
Use a screenshot with numbered sections and explain in plain english what you want to happen with corresponding sections