From the course: Designing Websites for Performance

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Web design tips

Web design tips

- [Voiceover] In this video I just want to share a few general web design tips around performance. Things that might be helpful later on. One of the first things I suggest to people when they design websites is, if you're going to build a bigger site or work with a team it'll probably be a good idea to do something called Wireframe. Now you can do this in Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, any program you have, and Wireframe is essentially kind of how things interact. The hierarchy of contents, how things are going to generally work or look on a page, but it doesn't technically include things like fonts, colors, the actual design elements necessarily, okay. This is an example of mockingbird.com and what we can do is you can actually take content and start to work with it a little bit out here so we can do things like you know, put drop downs, put in text, placeholders, tell where a picture's going to go, etcetera. I can delete content, move content around pretty easily. The whole idea is…

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