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Wireframe Design Best Practices


To get better results while converting your mockups, below are some suggestions.

  1. Preferable maximum width of mockups is 940px. Up to a width of 1030px an attempt is made to generate Html with fixed width layout. For mockups exceeding a width of 1030px, a fluid layout will be used.
     
  2. All child controls of a parent control should lie completely within the parent control.
     
  3. Avoid overlap of any two controls. Any overlaps between controls will make the converted html look different from the mockup.
     
  4. No ungrouped control should lie within the range of the grouped control.
     
  5. Rectangle/Canvas should not be used as background styles.
     
  6. A Wireframe with an iPhone Control is treated as a Wireframe for Mobile devices. With such wireframes an attempt is made to generate UI for Mobile devices.
     
  7. Unused controls should be cleared from Wireframes. Especially, no controls should be left lying beyond the intended top level control. Every control that is in the wireframe is treated as a required Control and affects the layout decisions. 
     
     
Guide lineWireframe screenshotConverted html screenshot
1. Preferable maximum width of mockups is 940px. Up to a width of 1030px an attempt is made to generate Html with fixed width layout. For mockups exceeding a width of 1030px, a fluid layout will be used. Mockup designed in prefered width. Html uses fixed layout of 940px width.
Mockup designed in more than prefered width. Html uses fluid layout with 100% width of your screen.
2. Avoid overlap of any two controls. Any overlaps between controls will make the converted html look different from the mockup. Controls overlapping with other controls. Html does not look as expected.
Re-ordered the controls so that they do not overlap. On re-ordering the controls, html looks as expected.
3. All child controls of a parent control should lie completely within the parent control. Controls falling beyond the container control. Controls rendered outside the container in Html.
Re-sized the controls width so that they fall in container. Controls rendered inside the container in Html.
4. No ungrouped control should lie within the range of the grouped control. Ungrouped control falling in the grouped controls region. Ungrouped control rendered after the group controls.
Regrouped the controls so that there in no ungrouped control in grouped region. On Regrouping properly, controls rendered as expected in the html.
5. Rectangle/Canvas should not be used as background styles. Canvas used as background.
( Not Preferred )
Background style not set as expected in html.
Canvas used as background. ( Preferred ) Controls rendered as expected in the html.

 

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