Web Design – Wireframes
Once we know who you are targeting and the content they want the next part of the Web Design process is structuring your content within pages.
According to Wikipedia …
“A website wire frame (also “web wire frame”, “web wireframe”, “web wireframing”) is a basic visual guide used in interface design to suggest the structure of a website and relationships between its pages. A webpage wire-frame is a similar illustration of the layout of fundamental elements in the interface. Typically, wireframes are completed before any artwork is developed.”
Wireframes allow for the development of variations of a layout to maintain design consistency throughout the site. Creating a set of wireframes for a project also acts as a way to communicate ideas to you and other stakeholders such as content creators, engineers, and developers.
Over the course of a project the wireframing exercise functions as a stable base on which to consider changes, user paths, and new requirements as they occur – without incurring the extra costs associated with changes to the actual designs.
The creation of wire frames also helps to define the positioning of global and secondary levels of navigation in a prominent and intuitive position, as well as suggesting where other elements might sit, such as helpful information and search facilities as examples.
Generally, it is after the creation of wire frames that your branding and corporate styling is applied to the site, based on an agreed creative brief.