Web Production Guideline

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

A template is layout and is divided it into zones, in the pre-design phase before production. There are:

• Header
• Footer
• Left
• Right
• Center
  

Within these zones, the Header and Footer zones are special has specific information to go in. The Left, Right, and Center Zones are typically filled with the following different types of blocks:

• entry tags,
• catalog tags,
• menu,
• drawings,
• info blocks,
• info boxes,
• ...
  

The color and shape of these zone color and tag/block color are selected at step 1 of the production. These blocks are to be placed into the Right, Left, and Center zones during step 6 of production (see below). The structure of website ensures the production can work in an orderly fashion. And this guideline also governs what can be changed, and can not during production.

All the parameter used in the layout are pre-designed or configured prior to the production started (step 1). Those parameter of configuration should not be touched during step 6 of production content fill. Since we have never established this rule before, we will pay more attention in following this guideline.

As a reminder, let me list the 9 steps of website order fulfillment (production) process:

1. choose a site template/layout
2. create menu (site map structure)
3. match the site color style
4. create baseline repository,
5. each staff check out their designated pages
6. content fill:
7. check in
8. QA
9. publish (release)

The content fill are executed with multi-staff in parallel

• match the info box color
• modify the info block placement, size, layout
• match/place the entry tags
• header/footer