I've had this idea for some time now as I have a lot of friends and small clients that could fit into this structure in one form or another. I think it would be awesome if I could build a structure for most of the possibilities and pick and choose the blocks I develop for a final project be it for an individual or small company.
I've have used Wordpress for this stuff and it is a powerful tool. With tools like that I wonder why try to do this from scratch myself but all in all it would be a great start to a product I may later turn into a Wordpress theme.
No matter what version of this site structure I come up with in the end for my final project, this was a needed step in the process.
Next:
- I'm going to take this and define all the possibilities for each kind of page template with a specific client in mind for each pass. Fashion Stylist, Painter, Web Designer, Advertising Agency, Property Developers, Real Estate Agents...
- Once I define 3 or 4 types of portfolios I'll wireframe the one that works for the final project.
- In the end I need to decide if this is for an individual or small company and what kinds of bells and whistles I can do by the deadline.
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Cool...I don't know if it is something that will interest you in terms of long term plans or not, but a theme package I just bought a couple of months ago went open source last month - the actual themes, that is. I don't know if this is common or not, but you can check it out at revolutiontheme.com. It is interesting because it treats design like "hard" technology and suggests that it should be flexible and extensible...plus I am sure people would design more cool stuff than you have time to do alone, and you could pass it on to clients.
Out of curiousity, what did you use to do your site diagram?
One other thought I had looking at your diagram...you could probably use Basecamp to cover the green area of your diagram. www.37signals.com
Practically a month later I found your comments Larry... sorry about that.
Thanks for the suggestions and I will definitely check out the theme.
My site diagram I used OmniGraffle which I also used for the wireframes.
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