First Things First: IA and CSS
With apologies for the delay, here are links to the presentation Christina Wodtke and I delivered at the webvisions 2004 conference this past Friday in Portland, Oregon.
Downloads
- IA and CSS (ppt, 571kb) - Final, as delivered at conference
- IA and CSS (html) Animation removed post-conference
- IA and CSS (pdf, 699kb) Animation removed post-conference
There has already been some feedback, including a wonderfully thorough recap over at epersonae.com, and some glowing words -- posted immediately after the conference -- from vanderwal.net.
This flat out rocks as it echos what I have been doing and refining for the last three years or more... This process makes things very easy to draft in simple wireframe... This practice has cut down development and design time in more than half and greatly decreases maintenance time. One of the best attributes is the decreased documentation time as using the Web Developer Extension toolbar in Firefox exposes the class and id attributes that provide semantic structure... I can not think of how or why we ever did anything differently.
Overall, I was very pleased with the talk, and with the reception is received. Some people did give some constructive criticism though, but that's always nice to get too.
Thanks to everybody who came and listened to me, and those that asked questions or found me for a conversation later. Thanks also to our wonderul hosts, who put on an excellent conference -- I'm looking forward to next year. And finally, to Christina again for dragging me out.
Filed on July 19, 2004 at 10 PM (Permalink) in these cateories:
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
https://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83456be4e69e200d83456be5f69e2
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Web Visions Presentation:
» Death to wireframes part 12 from IA? EH.
Nate has posted our natek: Web Visions Presentation, which makes a simple... [Read More]
Tracked on Jul 20, 2004 10:43:25 AM
» Making Wireframes Meaningful from Blog-Fu
Christina and Nate presented a very nice way to make wireframes more meaningful. Information Architects, designers and developers can (and should!) work together more effectively using a standards-based enviornment. Within these new wireframes, referen... [Read More]
Tracked on Jul 26, 2004 6:11:18 AM
» Making Wireframes Meaningful from Blog-Fu
Christina and Nate presented a very nice way to make wireframes more meaningful. Information Architects, designers and developers can (and should!) work together more effectively using a standards-based enviornment. Within these new wireframes, referen... [Read More]
Tracked on Jul 26, 2004 6:13:08 AM
» Making Wireframes Meaningful from Blog-Fu
Christina and Nate presented a very nice way to make wireframes more meaningful. Information Architects, designers and developers can (and should!) work together more effectively using a standards-based enviornment. Within these new wireframes, referen... [Read More]
Tracked on Jul 26, 2004 6:14:33 AM
» A Bevy of CSS-Related Articles from Information Management Weblog
I've collected a few good CSS-related items in recent days. Douglas Bowman writes about redesign Microsoft.com sans tables, and the benefits thereof. Jeffrey Zeldman comments on the aforementioned article. Nate Koechley and Christina Wodtke share a rec... [Read More]
Tracked on Jul 30, 2004 11:00:42 AM
» links for 2004-10-26 from Word up - It's the A-Dawg
Web Visions Presentation: IA and CSS (categories: css design ia) Best of Still Photojournalism 2004 (categories: candy multimedia photos) Campaign 2004: Third Presidential Debate Replay video excerpts of the... [Read More]
Tracked on Oct 25, 2004 5:14:21 PM
» The Future of CSS from hyku | blog
A number of blogs have pointed to Doug Bowman's presentation on Pushing Your Limits (and other secrets of designing with CSS) from the Web Essentials 2004 conference. If you are a a web developer using CSS it's a great read.... [Read More]
Tracked on Oct 30, 2004 1:12:44 PM
» Flow Of Time from Long
Here's a bit more about the long tail by Bnoopy.... [Read More]
Tracked on Sep 13, 2005 8:06:09 AM
Comments
I'm trying the PowerPoint file (which Google has not HTMLified) and I find it has many code samples and screenshots intermingled with the slides. Booboo? BTW, your preview font colours are dark green on lighter green.Posted by: Joe Clark | Jul 25, 2004 12:54:20 PM
I think you presentation realy hit the spot. For me being a coder your ideas about how IA should deliver their work realy makes sense. I think that it would make communication between IA and coders a whole lot easier (with common names etc.) and leaves more time to focus on the user experience insted of clearing out misunderstandings. Great work!Posted by: Espen D | Jul 26, 2004 3:53:55 AM
An IA advocacy page with downloadable content called "final"..."forweb"... "final_optimized"?! ...edNPosted by: ed nixon | Jul 26, 2004 5:32:21 AM
It's a shame that I couldn't read the HTML version. I tried to escape the frame by selecting "Maximize" with Opera's context menu, but it would always go back to the framed version. Whether I viewed your page with CSS enabled or disabled, I still had a difficult time reading it. With it enabled, much of the text overlaped itself on the 1st slide, making it impossible to read. When I disabled the text & tried to read the text in the left frame, I had to scroll left & right just to read it, because I couldn't adjust the frame. I honestly don't understand the significance of making frames unadjustable. I looked @ the images, but they were too small. I pretty much gave up about 1/3 of the way. I don't mean to be negative, but I haven't seen a page like that in ages. That being said, I'm sure that you have a logical explanation for it. I do agree with you on what appears to be your main point: when you are dealing with web pages you are dealing with a database. I honestly wondered why nobody said anything about this. Most people seem to think of it as a presentation. Thanks for your time. -- Sincerely, & with thanks, Eugene T.S. WongPosted by: Eugene T.S. Wong | Jul 26, 2004 3:51:44 PM
Thank you for an excellent presentation -- I'm in a team of 1.5 instead of part of a cast of thousands, but the points you made had a lot of resonance for me nonetheless. And I'm glad you liked my notes. (I was the gal typing like a mad freak about 5 rows back.) I'm happy to have them myself, now, as I try to put all of this into practice.Posted by: Elaine Nelson | Jul 27, 2004 8:05:37 AM
Thanks you two. Good stuff for understanding the engineering of the materials! CD EvansPosted by: CD Evans | Nov 8, 2004 3:24:21 AM
Really good work. I found a lot of profound information which can help me to go on. Thanks for all this input.Posted by: Miky Luke | Jan 19, 2005 2:31:19 AM
The comments to this entry are closed.