Here at the Church, we develop projects of various sizes that require designing and building prototypes of varying complexity. Much of my experience has been with large prototypes, and I wish to offer three suggestions for handling 20+ XHTML pages and numerous other assets.
#1: File Organization
A good Web application will have a domain structure that mirrors the content structure. This allows users to see where they are both on the Web page and the address bar of their Web browser.
For example:
“domain.org/temples”
is much cleaner and clearer than:
“www4.domain.org/webservices/construct/pagecontent/pageGenerator?id=temples&mode=981ASDFKH171ASDKFJ19”
In my projects, I like to separate page structure from assets like this:
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