One of the best things about Jumpchart is how easy it is to reorder navigation. It makes laying out the structure for a website flexible- not to mention it’s client friendly.

We’ve made a few tweaks, and implemented our recent lucid revelation.

You can now:

Expand and collapse sub-sections, which becomes really crucial and productive when dealing with larger projects.

Use the new visual dots to the left of the nav to more easily denote hierarchal level. Also extremely helpful for larger, more complex projects. Keep Reading

If you’ve used Staction, you probably know we’re keyboard people. The mouse is great, but nothing flies quite as fast as our fingers on a keyboard. If you work in the web-dev industry, you probably feel the same. 

Outside of design related tasks, there’s very little that can be achieved with a mouse that can’t be achieved (usually faster) with a keyboard. Knowing your key commands improves the speed and fluency of interacting with your computer.

On that note, we thought we would share some of our favorite indispensable key commands. We bet you know a lot of them- but we also bet you don’t know all of them. So for the 5 seconds a day, 2.5 minutes a month, and 30.4 minutes a year we just saved you, you are most assuredly welcome.  Keep Reading

In Jumpchart, you can copy an existing project, give a new user full access privileges (so they can change as much as they want) and still maintain a clean master copy for your own use.

In Jumpchart, you can include un-rendered code in your content. Just surround your code with “@” signs and it’ll look like this: <h1>heading<h1>.

It’s strange- we used to think we were in the business of creating web apps.

What we sell isn’t bundled up javascript, and glossy buttons… We sell a process. We sell conceptual ways to work and organize. 

The thing to keep in mind is that people are actually buying into something completely different when you think they’re buying nothing more than your product. They’re buying…

... the attitude of your company.

... the belief that the process you preach is better than the alternatives.

... the experience of participating in your brand. Keep Reading

Our mission: to make yet another bridge between website planning and website running. A couple of months back we launched a new export format in Jumpchart that allows our users to swoop their project straight into the WordPress CMS. We think it works great, and we got a lot of amazing feedback from our users.

While WordPress is a widely used CMS, unfortunately we don’t use it for most of our own web projects. We have a totally custom built system that we’ve been constantly tweaking and evolving for three years to fit our exact needs — internally, we call it Haydn (after Joseph).

So how were we going to make link between Haydn and Jumpchart? Keep Reading

The excitement of launching your app has passed, the rush of emails and tweets and blog posts has subsided, and now you find yourself asking, “What do I do now?”. Maintaining the motivation and the desire to keep updating and improving your app can be really difficult. We’re going to share just a few techniques that have worked well for us during the development, launch and update cycles of both our web apps, Jumpchart and Staction. Clearly, these ideas may not suit your app or your workflow, so please read on with a grain of salt. But if one or more of these ideas do work for you, all the better! Keep Reading

Now that the new Jumpchart has been released into the wild we thought we’d write a few posts focusing on some of the most important new features that have come to Jumpchart. In this first post we’ll be looking at the new Export to WordPress option, what it means for your workflow, and why it’s the most important new addition to Jumpchart. Keep Reading

The day has finally arrived. This morning we pushed a major update to Jumpchart, our collaborative content wireframing app. Jumpchart has a new face and a whole host of new tools in it’s utility belt! We’ve been working really hard over the last few months: Thinking, designing, building and living within the new Jumpchart and we’re really proud of the result.

If you’ve read through our Jumpchart preview posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) you’ll already know many of the changes that have come to the new Jumpchart, but not all of them. Let’s take a quick tour of some of the most exciting parts of the new Jumpchart. Keep Reading