[Zope] OT: Q about mockup-making software

[J Cameron Cooper]

Chris McDonough wrote:

>...
>Also, I don't even care that the resulting mockup looks much like what
>it will eventually look like in HTML.  The mockup doesn't even need to
>be dynamic (it needn't show the actual dropping down of dropdown boxes,
>or the actual scrolling of multiselect boxes, etc).  The only dynamicism
>required is a capability that would allow me to create a set of images
>that could be navigated by mouse clicks, each mouse click which would
>essentially just lead to another "page" which could itself be a static
>image with hotspots representing clickable areas.
>  
>
That sounds exactly like Denim.
http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/denim/

It's pretty nice, though there are a few things it could do better (like 
have templates for creating new pages.)

I tend to draw "looks" with GIMP and then follow up with clickable 
mockups with Denim.

          --jcc

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