Really – go check Gliffy out (also mentioned by Stephen Abram and the Librarian in Black). Now. Especially if you are in charge of your library’s website or mess around with web design.
What is Gliffy? Gliffy is a free, online version of Microsoft’s Visio, which is a flowchart, diagramming, layout, floorplan designing kind of software. Visio, while useful, has a definite learning curve, is pricey, and if probably overkill for most of us library website managers. All we really need (if we’re interested in wireframing a website) is a simple illustration or graphics application, and it’d sure be dandy if it had built-in presets for things like search buttons, textboxes, and other normal web thingies.
And that’s where Gliffy comes into play. It’s a great and easy online tool for wireframe, user interface, and web layout. Here’s a quick example to the right – this was done using Gliffy. I know it’s basic – but that’s me, not Gliffy’s fault. Here’s a link to a screencast showing how to use Gliffy to create a wireframe. It’s really pretty simple.
Also, here’s a link showing Gliffy’s wireframe example, and a link showing a web layout example.
So – go try it out!
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