In a step of site deveelopment that often gets overlooked, SitePoint has this new article to remind you to "wireframe your site".

We've all heard it time and time again: "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail". In the world of designing and creating Websites, if you fail to plan, you plan to have a lot of headaches, late nights and missed deadlines while re-designing your site to fit the content.

Implementing a few simple steps in carefully planning your site, before you create any graphics, can eliminate a lot of headaches. One method that I find very useful is the creation of a wire frame or "white site" model. I'll outline the benefits and process of wire framing in this article.

They show you what steps to take to plot out your new site, right down to the creation of an extremely stripped down version of your site. Layout first, content second, images third. The nice thing about this kind of site construction is that it lends itself well to the CSS-layout kind of method (create the base layout, then "beautify" with CSS).