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Title: Visio alternative for mapping websites
Post by: bill on March 08, 2016, 04:40:49 AM

I'm trying to help someone redo the information architecture of a website that has a few hundred pages. They've been giving me charts made in Excel and it's impossible to move things around or do anything really. I suggested Visio, but they don't want to pay for that. Do you guys know of any good diagramming tools (free preferred) that could handle a task like this?

All I want to do is show pages of the site and their links to help them visualize where content will go, and show them how visitors will navigate the site.

Title: Re: Visio alternative for mapping websites
Post by: Torben on March 08, 2016, 11:23:51 AM

PowerPoint?

Title: Re: Visio alternative for mapping websites
Post by: Drastic on March 08, 2016, 01:36:26 PM

There are quite a few wireframing tools out there that are free. I just found this a couple days ago:
https://www.draw.io/

Don't know how well that will work for hundreds of pages, but worth a look.

Title: Re: Visio alternative for mapping websites
Post by: Rumbas on March 08, 2016, 02:39:33 PM

http://www.axure.com/

Comes at a cost though, but brilliant.

Title: Re: Visio alternative for mapping websites
Post by: bill on March 09, 2016, 12:39:57 AM

Thanks!

I guess PowerPoint could be a fall-back. They've got that. It's a bit limited in terms of space, but at least it's better than the Excel.

Draw.io looks pretty good. That might be a good option.

Axure looks really powerful, but it's about the same price as a Visio licence. I'll let them look at that as an option.