A tour of Jumpchart
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Jumpchart is an interactive content wireframe
ScreenshotUse Jumpchart to quickly plan out the navigation of your site by adding pages, and sub-pages. If you change your mind, easily drag pages to new spots within the site hierarchy. There is no better way to organize the content for your website.
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The heart of Jumpchart is communication
ScreenshotGetting a website started takes a lot of collaboration. You’re used to getting feedback over the phone, over the fax, in your inbox, and face-to-face. It can be a real mess trying to sort it all out, and worse yet to remember it! Jumpchart builds communication in at the granular page level. You can subscribe to Jumpchart wide RSS feeds of the conversation, or even choose to be emailed every time someone says something new. You’ll never be out of the loop again.
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Hit the ground running. Export to WordPress
You’ve always been able to export clean CSS, and XHTML out of Jumpchart to move straight into the build phase. Now you can also export WordPress WXR format too! Besides WordPress – which is one of the most widely used Content Management Systems in the world – most of the other popular CMS’s on the market support this format, you’ll get to the design phase even faster. Imagine moving straight from approved nav and content to coding and design! No more retracing your steps!
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Working with files
Organizing the files for a website is a daunting task. It’s common to have them on discs, in emails, and even as hard copies. Not only is it hard to keep track of them all, it can be impossible to figure out where they go in the website. Take a shortcut, and have your collaborators attach files on the exact page they go with by using Jumpchart to manage your files.
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Formatting text
Jumpchart uses a special augmented version of Textile for text formatting. It’s simple to remember the formatting shortcuts, but the wysiwyg formatting bar is always there for you if you do. You can mockup virtually any real HTML entity with Jumpchart Textile, -basic text tags, tables, and even forms! The best part is that when you use Textile, you’re guaranteed semantic markup at export, unlike most text editors.
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As easy as drag and drop
Clients change their minds. New ideas pop up. It can be incredibly frustrating to embrace change when it creates so much new work. The only answer is to have a lightweight process that allows you to rapidly change direction. Jumpchart makes it very easy to reorganize the navigation of your website. It’s as simple as drag-and-drop to totally change the flow of your sitemap.
