Handing over a Framer site that stays tidy

What we leave behind so that a site is still easy to edit a year after launch.

Ines Carvalho

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A site is finished when somebody else can change it without calling us. That sounds obvious, and it takes deliberate work.

Name things for the next person

Layers are named for what they are, not how they look. Colours and text styles are tokens, never one-off values. The CMS fields are named the way editors talk.

Write the one page guide

How to add a project, how to publish a post, how to change the availability note. One page, with screenshots, in the project's notes.

Components for anything used more than twice.
A CMS for anything that grows.
Real content in every template, so empty states are visible.
A short video of the editing flow.

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