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The Landing Page Guide

Landing Page Prototyping With Wireframes & Mockups

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After defining what content objects are essential to your goals and objectives, you’re ready to start laying them out. Wireframes allow you to arrange content objects in different positions before creating a mockup. Build three different wireframes each with different content objects or content object placement. Have a designer create mockups based on these wireframes, either developing one landing page or three. I would develop three so you can test and find out which one receives the best conversion rate.

Wireframing is a simple process that should not take up too much time. I prefer to use Photoshop because of my familiarity with the program. If you are new to the wireframing process, I recommend Balsamiq Mockups for the creation of the wireframe. Their drag and drop interface is easy to use and provides predesigned content objects you can drop into a wireframe.

Landing Page Mockup
This page on mockups was pulled from The Landing Page Guide – A Conversion Experience.

The mockup is an important part of the creation process as it will represent what the landing page will look like before a developer slices and codes it. At this point, you trust the designer to create the landing page using best practices for direct response design. Typically the design will adhere to brand standards, the call to action will contrast, the headline will be big, and it will instill confidence in the consumer. Ultimately the design should support your goals and objectives. It’s ideal that your designer has previously created landing pages with a focus on design for conversion.

Mark Baldwin
written by: Mark Baldwin
Mark Baldwin is the Digital Services Manager at Valpak in St. Petersburg, FL. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Internet Marketing from Full Sail University and holds certifications in Google AdWords and Google Analytics. He’s an award winning web designer who started coding in 1999 and is passionate about all things tech and digital. Mark works on the digital product team managing the development of our advertiser reporting platform, Website Design, SEM, SEO and Social Media Services.
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