Build a HTML Mockup of your Site as Part of your Development Plan

The HTML Mockup is the last stage of a site development plan.

The key is to determine what part of the design must be converted to HTML, and what part must be optimized as images.

A knowledge of XHTML and CSS will help decide what parts of the design are doable.

Other considerations are:

• Download time
• Browser compatibility
• Use of tables for layout
• Semantic markup
• How Search Engines spider a site
• Fonts and white space for easy reading and skimming of information

Here are links to more planning information on this site.

• Discovery
• Wireframing
• Storyboarding
• (Note: Storyboarding involves the following steps...)
• Copywriting
• Rough Sketching
• Creating a Graphical Mockup
• Building a Color Mockup
• Building a HTML Mockup