Good links about web-site development

Written July 25. 1999, at 02:00 GMT.

IBM has some great essays on web-site development. Seperating content and visuals for rapid results questions the traditional visual-prototype-first method for web-site design. They argue that involving the visual and graphic aspect too early can both slow down the development process and also (subconciously) take the focus off usability issues and limit UI development. IBM has some more essays that are worth reading, including Giving people what they want: How to involve users in site design (Thanks Lawrence Lee.)

Philosophe.com contains a collections of essays and articles about web site development and web site quality. Testing and quailty assurance of web sites is an issue that is way too often forgotten, or using Derek Sisson's own words: "Conceiving, designing, building, and publishing a web site is the easy part."

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