John Hicks of HicksDesign gave an excellent speech at the most recent Future of Web Design Conference. He titles the presentation “Design to Deployment” and it covers exactly that.  He build a site dedicated to cheese, and in the process explains his code from planning to execution.  This is definitely guide that should be paid attention to.

I don’t 100% agree with everything he demos, however. For example, I am not much of a CSS grid framework advocate.  I believe that grid frameworks complicate sites with extra code and blur the lines between markup and style.  But other topics he covers are oh so useful, such as importing styles, and using Eric Meyer’s CSS Reset.  Check it out.  Also, below the video are links to the relevant slide show as well as some of John’s thoughts on the presentation.

Jon Hicks - FOWD London 2008 from Future of Web Design on Vimeo.

The slides for this presentation here.

Some of Johns personal thoughts here as well.