Ultimate Prelaunch Checklist For Customizing Your Framer Template

Launching a website is exciting right? But before you show it off to the world you need to make sure everything is in place. If you are using one of our framer templates, there are some easy steps you can follow to make your site look and work its best. Think of this as your handy prelaunch checklist. If you need the Notion version, feel free to duplicate our Prelaunch Checklist on Notion.

1. General

• Replace all placeholder text with your own content

• Update logos, brand colors, and fonts to match your brand

• Update the favicon, social preview, and Apple Touch icon in site settings to match your brand

• Check all headings and subheadings for clarity and tone

• Replace demo images with your own optimized images

• Change the site title and site description in site settings

• Ensure all images have alt text for accessibility. You can use this free tool to check all the alt text images

2. Links & Navigation

• Update all buttons and CTAs with correct links

• Verify that all internal pages (About, Services, Contact, etc.) are linked properly (use this free tool to check for broken links)

• Add and test external links (social media, booking links, etc.)

• Ensure the navigation menu works on desktop and mobile

3. CMS & Dynamic Content

• Fill in your CMS collections (blog posts, case studies, products, etc.)

• Double-check slugs, titles, and meta descriptions for CMS items

4. Design & Responsiveness

• Review the site on desktop, tablet, and mobile

5. SEO & Analytic

• Set unique page titles and meta descriptions for each page

• Connect Google Analytics (or your preferred analytics tool). You can follow this guide from Framer

6. Forms & Integrations

• Test all forms (newsletter, contact, signup) to ensure they work

• Verify email notifications are being received

7. Final Pre-Launch Checks

• Remove any demo content or unused CMS items

• Preview the site one last time as a visitor

• Ask a friend or colleague to review the site for fresh feedback

8. Go live

• Connect your custom domain. You can follow this guide from Framer

• Publish your site and verify it loads correctly

• Add your website to Google Search Console to speed up the Google indexing process

• Add schema markup to your website to help it show up better in search results

• Share your new website with the world 🎉

• (Optional) Tag Velox Themes on X/Twitter for more exposure 😁

Wrapping It Up

Launching your website is exciting and smooth when you follow this checklist. A little extra time spent now saves you headaches later. Make sure everything works perfectly before launching it to the whole world.

Now go ahead and make your website live with confidence.