Design Process

We will be developing a collection of living documents to aid in web design. These documents will primarily entail the sketch.css stylesheet, which will provide a collection of display based CSS classes; and the Web Ontology Guide, a encylopedic description of the structure of web documents.

To develop a new web site, we suggest that the weaver first sketch the web site, mutch as she would with a pencil and a piece of paper, using only the classes from sketch.css (which are documented in comments in that stylesheet) for style. When the site has the general look that the weaver wants, he then begins the process of labeling the elements used in the site using the Web Ontology Guide. As these elements are labeled, the weaver is writing a stylesheet for the site in development, and the working site is incramentally restructured to use its own stylesheet, with elements defined in terms of structural classes matching the Web Ontology, and not formating classes from the sketch stylesheet.

Upon completion of this process, the weaver has a new site, and a stylesheet for that site. Additionally, the new site no longer makes use of sketch.css.