When I started with graphic design my approach was quite straight forward. At least I thought that it was. It took a little while to actually find out that planning a raw layout on paper or with simple diagrams can be very helpful.
Luckily I already knew my way through wireframes when I started with webdesign. The idea is to make a “raw” version of the website first showing the links, the content hierarchy and information architecture.
Here a little one hour presentation if you want to get into it ;-)