Blog.OnlinePrimary.us

Today I started codifying what the elements, flow and process of the OnlinePrimary site will be.  “Wireframing” is what some call this activity (by analogy to roughing-in the outlines of an under-construction physical object using stiff wire).  I need this for the visual design spec, but it will guide the implementation as well.  First up: thinking through what will appear on the site’s home page.

The tool I chose to do this work is on online drawing tool Gliffy.  (I might have used Microsoft’s Visio software, which I have, but I like to learn about the capabilities of new web-based tools by using them for real work.  I’m pretty impressed with Gliffy.) Gliffy’s tools let me sketch in the elements of the page, them move them around, resize them, and so-forth as the work evolves.  To avoid any suggestion that my drawing was a visual rather than structural design, I stuck with a pallette of black, white and grays and with simple rectangular shapes and plain type. 

 It was a short workday though.  The morning was taken up with a long-scheduled doctor’s appointment, extended by a trip to the (busy) lab for the usual tests, and then a revisit to the lab in late afternoon for a second test the doc ordered.  So today’s yak was a different sort, but I still spent a lot of time yak-shaving.

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