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:
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*improve the communication process
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WD Becvar
@HotGloo