By chance, I've just finished building wireframes for a project in XHTML & CSS. I found it a little more time consuming and as Andy mentioned you can sit there and spend too long thinking about it. I mean wireframes should be addressed separately from any visual / production stages - your attention should be on boxing out the page in a usable, accessible layout and not on why the content area sits 50 pixels below the side navigation. The complications of writing the XHTML/CSS can stagnant the process.
Having said that, I now have the layout pretty much built and ready to hang some visuals off it and a protosite there for testing and content. I also now have the stylesheet set so I can adjust the values for future use and the client was impressed. I think in future I will sketch out the wireframes separately and then apply it to the XHTML/CSS to use as a protosite. Dave O'Brien On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:54:38 +0000, Andy Budd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iva Koberg wrote: > > > What's stopping you from creating the prototype boxes in XHTML + CSS? > > It has the added advantage of meaning that once you've got your > > layout, you've also got your document structure. Just add the content > > and remove the "border: 1px solid black;" properties and you're done. > > One of the points of using prototypes is that they are fast to build > and thus desposable. If you're using XHTML/CSS prototypes there is the > temptation to turn it into the final template. This either means that > you spend too long thinking about the code/structure of a prototype > that is likely to change, or you end up building in issues due to the > fact that the prototype was built rapidly. > > I tend to use low-fi wireframes then hi-fi prototypes, usually output > from the Phtoshop/Fireworks templates as regular table based HTML. > > Andy Budd > > http://www.message.uk.com/ > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > -- Dave O'Brien Venting my spleen at: http://www.ventingspleen.co.uk Develop the web at: http://www.thewebdeveloper.net ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
