Live Website Design and Development: From Mockup To Function
- Published by: Christopher Hennis
- November 13, 2008
This is something that I personally have never seen done on the web (on purpose at least), and that’s saying alot considering at any given moment you can pull up videos, tutorials, faqs, data banks, classes ranging from beginner to itsreallytimetojustgetofftheinternet insanely advanced, on any subject you could possibly think of, and most mashups of two or three ideas that derived from that initial interest.
Okay, I’m really kind of rambling here almost, so I’ll go ahead and get to the point of what I’m doing (and will most likely do a lot in the future.). For the next 48 hours, if you visit JungleJar.com, you’ll see raw website design & development, live. I’ll be uploading CSS files as I create them right then and there, everytime I change a class around or break the website, you’ll be seeing it. For every image I create, in real time (no images or mockups were created beforehand), you’ll see it on this website seconds fresh from Photoshop.
Okay, but why?
Well, number one, I think it’s rather entertaining. If not for the sometimes very raw CSS and XHTML we start out with before tweaking it to death and exposing that to everyone, having publically announced it even, and having it showcased in its earliest infancy. If not for that, as I was saying, then maybe this will appeal to you because you’re a website designer/developer yourself and instead of you yourself making the common mistake and maybe color misjudgement, or a site element, a sidebar perhaps, that would have been better left never having a single layer added to it in Photoshop in the first place — understanding that stress and being able to laugh at the fact that this isn’t one of the infamous webmaster cycles we all go through at some time or another that belongs to you in this moment. And we all know that being the webmaster of a website is like getting tattooed sort of, it’s addicting.
Well, here’s my exhibitionist-ism for you all to appreciate, laugh at, possibly steal design ideas from, or maybe even not even understand the purpose of this little experiment at all but somehow found yourself somewhat involved in it.
Enjoy.
The Process Page – a page here at JungleJar.com archiving images of my leaps, bounds, and failures.
