Tuesday 10 April 2012

Delivering with mockups




Every day hundreds of websites are hitting the virtual world, out of which few stands chance get recognized because of its attribute where as few fail to stand up to the expectations.  As a web developer, have you ever thought what was wrong with the sites that failed to perform or live up to the expectations? Well the simple reason that can explain the entire episode is called mockups. This is the single attribute that can add lots of useful ingredients to your site those are required to make it a successful site.

 There are many developers who tend to neglect the use of the mockups while designing their site and as a result, the outcome is not much encouraging. In fact, mockups are the basics in any constructive activities; one just can’t ignore the use of it. Particularly while dealing with the website construction, this will help you to deliver the best workmanship. Considered to be one of the important steps in website designing, mockups helps you with couple of important steps like establishing content and basic function, establishes information architecture and linking, creating a text-based list of the items to be placed on each page and many more.

If you want your site to function and deliver the way you expected from it, then you cannot afford to sideline the use of mockups. This is the only way, which can draw the route map for building a successful website, that to loaded with all the required attributes.