Once you have a plan for the structure of your site and the pages you will do for it, you are ready to prepare the "storyboard" and "assets list."
The storyboard is the representation of how your site will work, what the structure is for your content. It shows what will be on each web page, and which web pages lead to which other web pages. Essentially, this is what you have done with the yellow Post-Its, copied onto a more formal diagram. (If you start doing work for others, you probably will not want to just lay out Post-Its on their desks to show what you have designed!)
In addition, you need to write up a list of each item you need for your web pages, a detailed "To Do" list. For each page, consider:
- what graphics do I need to prepare?
- do I need to make buttons or banners?
- what links do I need to verify?
- what text do I need to write?
- what audio files, film clips, multimedia, etc., etc. . .
You might want to prepare the "To Do" list in columns, like this:
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Asssets
List & Storyboard
From this you can put together a list of everything you need to do, sorted by category: all the graphics to be done, all the text to be written, etc. This becomes the basis of your assets lists. (Of course, until the work is finished you may feel like it is more of a "liabilities" list, but they become "assets" once finished!)