Working with Wireframes
Overview
Wireframes are valuable tools in web design. They help visualize what should be on a page and where each piece of content should be in relation to each other. The goal is to be able to read a wireframe and develop that wireframe into a valid HTML structure.
Prepare
- Read: 📃 How to Read a Wireframe - Carl Duffied - @fuzzymath
Activity Instructions
You do not need to get this activity completely accurate and complete.
Just give it a valiant effort but do not spend more than 30 minutes on it. Use the video
demonstration below for additional ideas.
- Create an HTML file named "wireframe.html"" in your week02 folder.
- Add the critical
html
document andhead
elements. The 📑Development Standards checklist can be used as a reference to help you with this content.Check Your Understanding
Your HTML document should have aDOCTYPE
,html
(withlang
attribute),head
, andbody
element. In thehead
element, you should have ameta
element with thecharset
attribute set toutf-8
, ameta
element with theviewport
, and atitle
element. - Using this wireframe design, build the structure (the HTML only) of the page in your
wireframe.html document.
- Start with the three (3) children of the
body
.header
main
footer
- Place an
img
andnav
element inside of theheader
. Thenav
element should have four (4)a
anchor tag elements that have placeholder content and references for the links.Check Your Understanding
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>Wireframe Practice</title> </head> <body> <header> <img src="" alt=""> <nav> <a href="#">Home</a> <a href="#">Link</a> <a href="#">Link</a> <a href="#">Link</a> </nav> </header> <main> </main> <footer> </footer> </body> </html>
- Do your best to determine the elements that might be the best fit for the rest of the content on the page. Refer to video below for comparison and some ideas.
- Start with the three (3) children of the
Demonstration: 🎦 Wireframe to HTML
Example
Submission
- Commit and push your work to your GitHub Pages course repository. See your published page
here:
https://githubusername.github.io/wdd130/week02/wireframe.html
- Return to I-Learn to report on your work.