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Working on a non-profit project and wondering if there's a standout wireframing tool for website design. I've taken photos of collaborative whiteboard drawings and now I want to put the results into something slightly more professional looking for review. For obvious reasons I'm not interested in anything that looks too much like the finished product or takes longer than it would for me to write the HTML.

I checked out jumpchart, but that only seems to let you do content panes, not draw whole page layouts.

Free or close to free is desirable - for instance jumpchart licensing seems very reasonable.

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Duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/720191/web-ui-prototyping-tools . However, Balsamiq looks like it's what you'd want. – CaffGeek Mar 18 '11 at 15:38
@Chad is it really a duplicate if it's on another site? – George Stocker Mar 18 '11 at 15:43
@George Stocker... perhaps not, I didn't even realize that I did that. – CaffGeek Mar 18 '11 at 16:29
I take back my previous comment. The difference is in the "free" part of the question. – Fritz Meissner Mar 18 '11 at 16:49

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Check out the Pencil Project if you want free.

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Exactly what I was looking for – Fritz Meissner Mar 23 '11 at 12:20
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The DENIM project from the University of Washington is a pretty neat tool if you are in the very early stages of UI design and you want to get the "flow" of the website / application designed without much attention to it being pretty. It works best on tablet PCs.

Here's a sample DENIM site: http://dub.washington.edu:2007/denim/denim_daily_files/page149.html

And here's a youtube video demonstrating how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxlToermEyM

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Balsamiq is the best I've seen out there.

Balsamiq's web stuff.

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+1 for great customer service and a great product – Evan Mar 18 '11 at 15:58
+1 For Balsamiq Good tool. – MalsR Apr 17 '11 at 9:50

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