[consulting] Managing look at feel...

[Dan Robinson]

This is exactly our experience.  Even though it is very sub-optimal from
an engineering and management point of view (creates a bottleneck at the
beginning of the process) it is the process that most customers
understand and expect.  In our experience the decisions around what the
website will look like are very important (and emotional).  Showing them
an "out of the box" design and saying "it will all look different after
we finish the themeing" doesn't work. 

Dan

>On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 08:16:36AM -0800, John Sechrest wrote:
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>>Would you start developing a theme from scratch?
>>Would you use an existing theme and get "close enough"
>>Would you outsource a theme design to someone else? 
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>We have tried different models. And the one that works best for us is to
>hire a designer to make a TIFF with the design, receive a written ok from
>the customer, then pass it to XHTML+CSS and then make the Drupal theme.
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>That makes the whole process very expensive, but designers here (in Spain)
>prefer to begin with a new design and the written ok from the customer is
>very important for me. And, also, the customer knows how the final design
>of the site will be before you begin to code.
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