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Sep 13, 2025

Framer Website Extension Setup Guide

This guide will explain how to effectively expand a Framer website by organizing design libraries, designing flexible layouts, utilizing the CMS, emphasizing the testing phase, and optimizing for improved performance.

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This blog thumbnail covers a guide for setting up Framer website extensions and explains how to manage content using the design library and CMS.
This blog thumbnail covers a guide for setting up Framer website extensions and explains how to manage content using the design library and CMS.
This blog thumbnail covers a guide for setting up Framer website extensions and explains how to manage content using the design library and CMS.

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This document aims to assist Korean users learning Framer who face challenges due to a lack of Korean resources. We have translated content from the official blog into Korean and added practical information. We hope this provides some help to Framer users.

Setting Up Your Design Library

When starting a project, organizing your design system in advance can be greatly beneficial for scalability later on.

  • Text Styles: Define text styles for H1, H2, body, captions, etc. Adding responsive breakpoints allows for automatic resizing on different devices.

  • Color Styles: By unifying colors for elements like backgrounds, text, and buttons, the overall site gains a clean look. Set individual contrast values for light and dark modes.

  • Components: Turn reusable elements like buttons, navigation menus, and card UIs into components. Utilizing the Variant and Variable features lets you adapt the same component for different situations.

Creating Flexible Designs

A website isn't finished once it's built; it continues to evolve and expand. Designing a flexible structure from the start makes it easier to adapt to these changes.

  • Modular Layouts: Designing your page in section units like hero banners, feature introductions, and customer testimonials makes it easier to rearrange or add new blocks later.

  • Using the Stack: Try using the stack feature to automatically align content when it increases or decreases. This eliminates the need to manually adjust pixels.

  • Prioritize Key Breakpoints: Designing based on the most important resolution (e.g., desktop) first, and then adding detailed sections for smaller screens, is efficient.

Note: If you have designs done in Figma or HTML files, the Figma to Framer or HTML to Framer plugins can save a lot of time.

Content Management with CMS

As your site grows, efficiently managing regularly updated content like blog posts, product information, and news becomes crucial. This is where a CMS proves essential.

  • Content Collections: Organize regularly updated content such as blog posts, product lists, FAQs, and news articles into separate CMS collections for easy management.

  • Components and Layouts: Instead of simple text lists, CMS collections can be combined with desired design elements for flexible adjustments.

Testing and Performance Prioritization

It's advisable to test securely before deploying final designs. For more optimization tips, refer to the site's Optimization Guide.

  • Staging Environment Testing: Testing and approval in a staging environment before going live reduces the chance of issues.

  • Optimization Tips: Minimize unnecessary animations and embed videos via YouTube or Vimeo instead of uploading files directly to improve loading speeds. Avoid adding unnecessary scripts to Custom Code.

This article is adapted from the Framer official blog's ‘Setting up your Framer site for scale’ content.

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