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DENIM may be the rapid Web prototyping tool you're looking for

Hello

Somebody knows another or similar software like this in the market?

Thanks a lot.

Thanks for bringing this application to my attention.

I've been tinkering with it for about a couple of days now, and it is a geat help in planning for web development. It is especially helpful to those of us that work remotely, as all of the drawings we put on paper are basically worthless. This let's me brainstorm and share my thoughts with team members immediately.

Thanks for bringing this application to my attention.

I've been tinkering with it for about a couple of days now, and it is a geat help in planning for web development. It is especially helpful to those of us that work remotely, as all of the drawings we put on paper are basically worthless. This let's me brainstorm and share my thoughts with team members immediately.

Thanks for the comments. I'm glad to hear that you are able to put it to good use so quickly.

BTW, are you using a stylus and tablet or mouse and keyboard with it?

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Not only does it allow you to do rapid prototyping, but you can then export it as PDF, GIF, JPG, you name it. Then when it is time to create the HTML pages/templates you can use slices to create not only the individual images for the site, but also the corresponding HTML. It uses the Image Ready 2 engine. This is powerful stuff...cut our lead time in half.

I tried it
on a Pentium III with only 60Mb
and was impossible to construct something
(it was too slow)

The idea is good, but the product is not for me

Sorry

Bear in mind the intent of this software is to facilitate the production of complex e-commerce, governmental and enterprise sized sites, not small brochureware sites (although I've used it for this too) and it is one component of a structured methodology in interative interface design.

Professional web consultancies who would need to prototype sites using tools like this are not using "Pentium III with only 60Mb" (I assume 64Mb RAM was meant). As this software requires the JDK 1.4 to be installed on the systems you should be running a minimum of 128Mb RAM anyway. Buy more memory and you'll get more out of this tool.

As for DENIM being primarily usable with pen/stylus input, so what? A5 sized tablets cost below ?70 (sorry, not sure of US prices) and are very easy to use - many come with a cordless mouse too.

Let's not lose sight of the fact this tool is also free to download and use - once you've mastered it's capabilities you'll wonder why something like this is scarcely known about.

Haven't tried it yet, but I LIKE the fact that it looks like a sketched prototype. Unfortunately, many tools give something that looks like a finished product, and then the client wants to use it for production work. Either that, or you have to convince them that its easy to change the prototype, and then they expect the final product to be just as "plastic."