You decided to open a website. Found a freelancer to outsource that job and now you have to explain him how the site shall look like. About look, you always can find some sites you like and pass the links, but for showing what parts website shall have, where will buttons go, where the text area will be, where you would like to put images, for all that having wireframe is the best solution. You can draw the idea on paper, scan it, and send the image to freelancer. You also can make the concept in Word document. But here is one of most convenient solutions in my experience. Making a wire frame with some software made just for that.
I personally use WireMaster. It can be very time consuming. Add image placeholder, text field, header, button, all that you need on site just with one click. After that, it’s drag and drop system for placing it on site holder, dragging the wide, height, … When you make what you need, go to Generate Wireframe, and save the project that way in HTML. It will save the image of site wireframe but whole HTML, too, with site descriptions and additional descriptions (business rules) you entered while generating wireframe. With making just few examples you’ll get how it works and after, you will save much time in future. Yours and freelancer’s time, too. Here is one Wireframe example on the image bellow, I made in Wire Master:
Just a short note first for those who are not familiar with Dropbox. It allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically. Dropbox backs up your files online without much trouble, in background. A copy of your files are stored on Dropbox’s secure servers. You can access them from any computer or mobile device.
Now, Dropbox site has moved from GetDropbox.com to Dropbox.com. Easier to remember and better for brand.
The Dropbox iPhone app is available now for free from their App Store. It’s now 3.0 compatible too. Also in the works is an update to the app that includes optional passcode locking, better handling of images and more.
And, Dropbox reached 3 million users now.
Maybe you are designer and you use Adobe Photoshop but you don’t have it installed on your laptop. Or you just have .psd file some freelancer made for you, but you don’t have Photoshop installed so you don’t know how to see what’s in the file? Maybe you just need to open it and look at file content, without layers and working process? In that case you can use free software – IrfanView. It’s free for personal use (you can donate if you are satisfied or attend to use it in commercial purposes) and it is small file (lower then 1.5 MB plus about 7 MB if you want plugins installed).
If you open .psd file in IrfanView, you will see whole file as one image. If you need you can save that image as jpg, gif, tif, bmp, png, ico, pdf or some of many offered extensions.
