Part 4 - Thinking Modular

Hopefully a pattern is starting to emerge as you read this. It's about changing the whole way you approach site design. Instead of planning your sites as a series of static pages, you should be thinking of them in a modular sense: what are the graphic units they can be reduced to? Once you build a site this way, you'll be amazed how easy it is to make changes across sections or the entire site.

You also want to be thinking about incorporating the dynamic, interactive potential of CGI into your HTML concept: how can you include automated processes with your static pages to further your site goals and hold your audience? The answers to this question are limitless - all you need is some creativity and a good PERL coder.

Once you start to think along these lines as you develop, you will wind up with a product that is more adaptable and that harnesses the real potential of the Web's interactive environment.