Architecting a website
Although as a web designer you will usually be regarded as the "look and feel" person for a website, you are also a key partner in determining the site architecture. As you design, you often define how the site will be navigated. Is this website one page or will an end-user "click around" the site to other areas or sub-pages and explore? Where will each page inter-link or link out to other websites? What is the main navigational element: a navigation bar? Where will it reside on all the pages? Is this site content or search driven? All these questions (and many more) require the entire team's involvement (and a client's opinion) to make the appropriate decisions. As the web designer, it is your job to work with all of these elements at a visual level—navigation bars, search fields, buttons, title bars, footers, and more—and fit them into the overall website design.
