What is a “graphical wireframe”

I don’t know if there’s an official technical term called “graphical wireframe” but if not it’s a term I’ve coined for a tool we often use in website develpment, design and re-design.

A “wireframe” is a layout mockup of a web-page design, which is typcially in blocks of black and white:

what is a wireframe

A graphical wireframe is simply a wireframe, with some actual, or “placeholder” images and graphics put in place, so it looks a little more realistic, but is not an actual functioning web-page… it’s usually just an image, like the one below:

graphical wireframe

The idea of a graphical wireframe is for the web developer/designer to relatively quickly mockup how the site will look and function in block format, that can be quickly iterated based on client-feedback.

Once a design and layout has been approved, the web designer can then spend the more detailed and intensive time actually creating that design and layout in a web development tool like WordPress, or Convertri.

Sometimes a layout and design can be mocked up in fast development platforms like Convertri mentioned above, which is very quick for a designer to move things around, and the client can also check what it will look like on desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Click here for a live website version of the above graphic, but note that the menu links don’t go anywhere.

If you need help developing, re-designing, or migrating your website, we’d love to hear from you – contact us here!

 

WordPress Load Speed Optimisation on Steroids!

Here's how to take you WordPress Website from "as slow as a dog" to near-perfect Google Speed Scores:

The new Google algorithm update “Web Core Vitals” releases in May 2021!  Web Core Vitals essentially focuses on the load speed of your web-page, using specific metrics. 

Google Page Speed Insights, is THE benchmark tool to measure these load speed metrics, and the affect of these metrics on your website’s Google rankings, is going to get a whole lot greater once Google start rolling out Web Core Vitals.

For most WordPress website, we guarantee we can get your metrics to comply with Web Core Vitals standards, or we will refund your setup fee!

Using economical, but specialised software and optimisation processes, here are some of the results we’ve achieved recently. These tests are all run in Google Page Speed Insights, and all website are hosted in Australia.

For the website www.pharmacyfinanceaustralia.com.au

From this mobile score:

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For the website www.accommodationfinance.com.au/

From this mobile score:

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Wordpress load speed optimisation

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For the website www.cashflowit.com.au/

From this mobile score:

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For the website www.thinxtra.com/

From this mobile score:

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For the website www.d-luapark.com.au/

From this mobile score:

From this desktop score:

To this:

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For the website www.fitfoodsclub.com.au/

Test it here

From this mobile score:

From this desktop score:

To this:

To this:

Our approach uses a specific, very trusted and safe software, together with specific optimisation settings our WordPress experts apply, and we guarantee that your Google Page Speed Insights score will be at least:

Mobile: 90  Desktop: 93 or we will give you a no questions asked 100% refund!

If your website has relatively low traffic, the software is free. 

For higher traffic websites, you will need to subscribe to a paid version of the software for approximately $AUD 32/mth.

Our fee to implement the system is $169 + GST for a website without a header slider, and $250 + GST for a website with a header slider.  IMPORTANT NOTE:  This system does not work well on mobile view for websites with a header slider – so we will need to install one to three static images for the mobile view, in a “stack”, or column layout, and disable the slider for mobile views.

Contact [email protected], or call 07 3118 6161 and ask to leave a message for Peter.