A website starts as a gleam in someone’s eye — a vision of an Internet presence to sell a product, promote a service, or promote an idea. The gleam may be in your eye, or your client’s eye, but eventually the vision must be brought to fruition in the form of code, images, and text that are polished into user-friendly pages and then uploaded to a web server for the world to see.
Your mission is simple, kind of: designing a website. You have a good idea of what you or your client wants, and now it’s time to start putting your creative spin on those ideas.
Getting Inspired
What your client sees in her mind’s eye may be very different from the cold, hard reality of existing websites and what’s considered acceptable for a specific type of business. After all, when you go into a five-star restaurant for the first time, you have a certain preconceived notion. If you go inside and smell grease and hear beepers going off (“Fries are ready!”), you’ll probably make a quick exit, stage-left.
