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

We’ve been teasing you with little bits and pieces of the new Jumpchart for long enough. It’s time to come clean and show you the whole picture; the full monty, as they say. This is the third post in series previewing the new Jumpchart, you can find the first two posts here: It’s all in the details: Preview of the new Jumpchart and More details on the new Jumpchart. So let’s get right to the point: Keep Reading

One of the most powerful aspects of Jumpchart is that it allows you to share your Jumpcharts with the other people that are working on the project. From the client, to the designers, to the developers – everyone is on the same page, literally. After a recent chat with a user about sharing Jumpcharts we got to thinking about all the different ways that you can accomplish sharing in Jumpchart, a few of which you may not know about. So, without further ado, the 4 ways to share your Jumpchart: Keep Reading

It’s been 16 months since Jumpchart first launched and, so far, it’s been great. From the very beginning, Jumpchart was blessed by many great reviews and even more exciting to us is that Jumpchart has become such an integral part of so many people’s daily workflow (including our own). But now it’s time to take Jumpchart forward. For the last few months we’ve been working on a major refresh of Jumpchart: Internally, we’ve been using the new version for some time now and we’re really excited about the changes, both in terms of UI efficiency and in terms of the features that we’ve added. While we’re working out the final details and getting ready to send this update out into the world we thought it’d be nice to share some of the finer points of the new Jumpchart. Keep Reading

This morning, at approximately 11:30 am Eastern Time, both Jumpchart and Staction were unavailable for approximately 25 minutes. This was due to a complete outage of our hosting provider, Media Temple. The issue appears to have been caused by a problem at one of their data centers. According to their network status page, they are looking into the problem in detail and will post more details as they become available. Keep Reading