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What Is a Website Wireframe?

A Web wireframe is a simple visual guide to show you what a Web page would look like. It suggests the structure of a page, without using any graphics or text. A website wireframe would show the entire site structure – including what pages link to where.

There are two general types of wireframes that can used:

Low-fidelity

Resembling a rough sketch or a quick mock-up, low-fidelity wireframes can be quickly produced.  They are more abstract, using rectangles and labeling to represent content.  Dummy content, Latin filler text (lorem ipsum), sample or symbolic content are used to represent data when real content is not available.

High-fidelity

High-fidelity wireframes are often used because they incorporate a level of detail that more closely matches the design of the actual webpage. Because of the level of detail, they do take longer to create.  High fidelity wireframes include more real content, such as the desired font style, wording, images, etc.

The advantage of high-fidelity wireframes over low-fidelity ones is that it makes it easier to visualize what the end product will look like.

SMARTSite Error: Server error in ‘/’ application – Illegal characters in path

Problem:

My website seems to be experiencing issues right now.  After logging in as a user and clicking on the product link we are seeing:

Server error in ‘/’ application

Illegal characters in path.

 

Solution:

This problem is caused by a product code with an illegal special character in it.

Illegal special characters are:

\   /   :   *   ?   ”   <   >   |

 

Example:

The product code 6″MINI has a quantity available for sale online of 5.

The addition of an “illegal character,” in this case the “quote” symbol, will cause the server error.  If the quantity is changed to 0 the site will appear normally.

Avoid using special characters in product codes.  Product codes are used as file names on the website.  Special characters can cause the Server Error problem on the site.

To fully resolve the problem, inactivate the problem inventory item and create a new item that does not contain any illegal characters.  In the example given, this product code – 6″MINI – could be re-created as this – 6INCHMINI.