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David Minelli

pro

• Feb 5

Before launching a website, my pre-launch checklist focuses on four areas: performance, accessibility, QA, and handoff. Performance: I run PageSpeed Insights with a 90+ mobile / 95+ desktop target, optimize images to WebP/AVIF, apply lazy loading, remove unused styles and interactions, and minify HTML, CSS and JS. Accessibility: Semantic HTML, correct heading hierarchy, alt text for images, keyboard navigation, WCAG AA color contrast, visible focus states, and basic screen reader checks. QA: Cross-browser testing, real-device mobile testing, form submissions and validation, CMS previews, link checks (no 404s), and proper meta tags and redirects. Client handoff: CMS training and documentation prepared, and final staging approval before going live. A successful launch is about having standards and following them every time.

Adonis Demetriou

• Feb 5

wow, wonderful optimize!

Edward Gerasim

• Mar 10

One color. One message. Zero distractions.

This is what a Web3 landing page should feel like.

Framer Figma uxdesigner

Feroj Ahmed (Framer Expert)

• Mar 10

Look and feel is realy nice

Serge Herasymchuk

max

• Mar 10

Another quick project ⚡️ but with a slightly different approach.

Worked closely with the marketing team on this one. We were building a landing funnel, but instead of starting from the lead magnet, we started from the end.

First, we created the full course page to test if the offer would actually be interesting for the audience. The page was used for ads, with a form to see if the program fits the user – and if the user fits the program.

Only after that, we built the checklist lead magnet funnel to bring cold traffic and warm it up before sending people to the course page.

Projects like this are always fun because it’s not just design – it’s real marketing logic, testing, and iteration 🚀

Check it out on Contra 👇

Figma Kajabi Web Design

Aditya Pandey

• Mar 10

Building the course page first to validate the offer before creating the lead magnet is genuinely smart strategy. Most people do it backwards. This is design thinking meets conversion logic.