When talking about wireframing, it’s easy to compare the practice akin to a storyboard used in movies or shows.
A wireframe is a real bare bones, rough draft for the potential layout for how one plans to display the content on their website, top to bottom. So barebones that it does not take into consideration colors or actual content (words or graphics), simply how it’s laid out and how the user will flow through the site.
It is up to the design (team) to cater to the target audience and provide an experience that will engage them and allow them to accomplish their goal by providing whatever they may be looking for. This is done by not only providing relevant content, but also a tranquil and relatively easy to maneuver layout. Similarly, this same practice can be used when designing apps or any other product.
This design process may take many attempts of trial and error though collaboration with those on the same team or input and feedback from the target demographic, and can be done the old fashioned way by use of pen and paper (which may be faster and more cost-effective), but many digital tools and resources exist so that one may do this with the use of a GUI through a website or similar.
How you make a wireframe is a personal choice; some might benefit from ways others don’t and different situations call for different solutions and approaches. It might be a good idea to view examples of other wireframes to help breed creativity in your own design process.
Clarity. Confidence. Simplicity.
A good wireframe does the heavy lifting of allowing a user to experience and learn what the product is intended to represent (without you having to explicitly tell them), what it offers to the user/ how it fulfills their needs. It achieves this confidently by offering easy navigation, solid content and simple design; no extra fluff (design elements, links, graphics, etc.), visual enhancements should enhance the content, not distract from the main course.
HTML stands for Hypertext Transfer Markup Language and is used across the world wide web to build websites and format their content. Elements are used to wrap around text content and define its formatting throughout the structure of a site. Most, but not all, elements have an opening and closing tag (i.e. <html>content</html>).
Through the use of links, HTML documents are connected to each other, resulting in the world wide web. Websites are further enhanced by the use of other tools/languages like CSS for styling and presentation, and Javascript for behavior, responsive elements and functionality.
HTML shares a lot of similarities with markdown, changes only in how certain elements are formated and specified.
The meaning of a piece of code. What effect does running/including a certain piece of code have in its final output. Elements that have an implied (or learned) effect rather than a verbose descriptive name.
< >), the name of the element within, and closing tags (</ >)