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Making Website Mock-Ups in Linux?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the web-site-storyboards dept.

The Ubiquitous Web Designer asks: "I am trying to design a rather complex web page and am wondering if there are any tools which will allow me to make non-functioning mock-ups of each page so that a programmer can work from them. Obviously, it's hard to use the GIMP to make radio buttons, check-boxes, data entry fields, and so on. Can something help me design a page without much knowledge of HTML, or am I better off just doing it with paper and pencil by hand?"

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  1. Nvu by Sodki · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try Nvu, it's good enough.

  2. just the thing by greenguy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Inkscape is perfect for this sort of thing. I've used it many times.

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    1. Re:just the thing by SpectreHiro · · Score: 3, Informative

      I agree with the parent. Vector is by far the easiest way to produce mockups, and Inkscape is an excellent program. However, I'd also like to throw in a recommendation for Xara Xtreme which got slashdotted a couple days back. I'm quickly falling in love with it. I initially started using it because I couldn't get the newest release of Inkscape to run... Now, I don't think I'll be going back.

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  3. Paper Prototype instead by kognate · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please do not do what you've asked about doing. Instead, pick up a copy of Paper Prototyping at http://www.paperprototyping.com/ then read it, and then you will save yourself a huge amount of time (much more than the time you take to understand the concept).

    Your users will thank you.

  4. Sounds like a job for denim by afd8856 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Java tool, optimized for tablets though. http://dub.washington.edu/projects/denim/

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