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Omer Asadullah
Omer Asadullah
10,415 Points
Posted by Omer Asadullah
Omer Asadullah
10,415 Points

About testing the compositional value of a website?

Hello Guys!

In the Web Design track, the very first course is "How to build a website". In this course, the stage 8 named "Responsive Webdesign and Testing" has the fifth video named "Website Testing" in which a screen shot of the website is captured and reviewed in photoshop for it's compositional balance, colour and other things. This project was a simple one and I understand that mockup creating step wasn't necessary and discussed but I would like to ask that is it not more appropriate to check the compositional balance and aesthetics of a website in the wireframing and mockup stage rather than testing these things after the very long hard work of creating that website?

1 Answer

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Hi Omer, most certainly. You'd want to test the color, flow, feel, and look of a website before coding it up. However, some developers choose to design in the browser altogether.