We’re very close to launching the beta of Jumpchart. We’ve put up a newsletter signup/ beta invite request at the official URL: http://jumpchart.com

A few things we’ve been working on.

• The beta invitation process
• Sample Jumpcharts to help people get acquainted.
• Tightening the screws on cosmetics
• Making a dev server so we don’t have to experiment with changes on the live beta server
• Working on better video tours. Right now they’re lacking audio since nobody at Paste sounds like James Earl Jones.

In case you haven’t heard about it, Jumpchart is:

Jumpchart is an online tool that helps you to collaboratively organize the content that goes into a website. You and your collaborators can easily add pages, sub-pages, and attach files and images as you go. Jumpchart empowers you to change your mind about where content ought to exist in a hierarchical structure.

The best thing about Jumpchart is that it has momentum into the build phase of web development. If you believe in standards based web design, and are a css devotee, you’ll never enjoy building websites more than when they pop out of Jumpchart. An exported Jumpchart is valid CSS, and XHTML that is ready to be customized, and turned into any site you can imagine.