When someone says “You can’t see the forest for the trees,” they’re talking about distractions. Maybe. Or trees. I’m going to pretend like they’re talking about distractions. It’s the same thing with designing a Web site. Before we fill in the fonts, colors, words, pictures and other elements, we have to know where to put them. We come up with an idea or three and we do wireframes. Pictures and words are big distractions, for both us and the client.

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