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Why Do Webmasters Need Flowcharting?

| March 27, 2009

A picture is worth a thousand words. Do you believe it? What do you understand being told such a definition: "a massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together by its own gravity"? And when you see an image of a star? Which is better to understand what is being talking about? The meaning of both definitions is equal but the way it is communicated is completely different.
We better perceive images than mere text and figures. Well done data visualization allows clear understanding, better visibility and an possibility to feel hidden connections in complex data sets.
One of the best ways to visualize data is flowcharting. It transfers words into image without losing the words' sense. Flowcharts help understand complex concepts and find efficient solutions. In describing the tangled relationships with a variety of alternatives and results, they are excellent to keep the main points even in different languages. Also flowcharts deliver you the essence of the flow process at one glance.

There are different reasons for flowcharts usage.

  • Training Materials
    Flowcharts are necessary when you need to display the total range of processes needed to fulfill the task. Text documentation is usually difficult for understanding as bare text fails to give the complete idea. Dealing with newbies and trainees flowcharts are more effective. The reason is that they are easy to understand and visually stimulating.

  • Workflow Management and Improvement
    To ensure the compliance with customers’ needs, you must get control over your business processes and activities. The first step of workflow management is to identify the actual position of your processes by making initial flowchart . That enables you to detect your processes for the loss and inefficiency. After implementation of sectors' analysis for the process improvement, you can build new flowcharts to confirm the coming changes.

  • Troubleshooting Guides
    Most of us have met a troubleshooting flowchart at least once a life. Such kind of flowcharts are often made in the form of Decision Trees which progressively narrow the scope of suitable solutions based on a range of criteria. The more successfully you are able to adjust to the existing set of problems and their solutions into a plain "Yes/No" model the more efficiently flowchart helps in solving the difficulties.

    The best software for creating flowcharts on the websites will be reviewed in my next post.
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