Website Wireframe

“A website wireframe, also known as a page schematic or screen blueprint, is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website. Wireframes are created for the purpose of arranging elements to best accomplish a particular purpose. The purpose is usually being informed by a business objective and a creative idea. The wireframe depicts the page layout or arrangement of the website’s content, including interface elements and navigational systems, and how they work together. The wireframe usually lacks typographic style, color, or graphics, since the main focus lies in functionality, behavior, and priority of content. In other words, it focuses on what a screen does, not what it looks like.

Wireframes are generally created by business analysts, user experience designers, developers, visual designers and other roles with expertise in interaction design, information architecture and user research.

Wireframes focus on:

The range of functions available;
The relative priorities of the information and functions;
The rules for displaying certain kinds of information;
The effect of different scenarios on the display.”
[from Wikipedia]

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software enhanced with Website Wireframe solution from the Software Development area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is a powerful website wireframe design software.

Example 1. Website Wireframe - Multi-Author Blog

Website Wireframe Solution offers large collection of ready-to-use predesigned icons, control elements, widgets, and other vector objects that will allow to realize any of your website wireframe ideas. All these 275 objects are grouped in 7 libraries and are easy for use. In addition they are vector, you can resize them without loss of quality.

Advertisement Library

Controls Library

Icons Library

Navigation Library

Text and Images Library

Web Widgets Library

Wireframe Grid Library

Pay also your attention for the collection of samples and template developed and included in Website Wireframe solution. Any desired sample or template that you will find in ConceptDraw STORE, can be opened, filled and changed according to the user's needs. Try and make sure that it's very simple and convenient!

Example 2. Website Wireframe - Photogallery Webpage

The samples you see on this page were created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the tools of Website Wireframe Solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software. These website wireframe examples successfully demonstrate solution's capabilities and professional results you can achieve. An experienced user spent 15 minutes creating each of them.

Use the Website Wireframe Solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM Solution Park to develop a website structure and interface design quick, easy and effective.

All source documents are vector graphic documents. They are available for reviewing, modifying, or converting to a variety of formats (PDF file, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and many other graphic formats) from the ConceptDraw STORE. The Website Wireframe Solution is available for all ConceptDraw DIAGRAM users.

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Cross-Functional Flowchart →

There are many tools to manage a process or to illustrate an algorithm or a workflow. Flowcharting is one of those tools. However, it may be difficult to show complex processes that require multiple attributes or several people in a simple flowchart, so a cross-functional flowchart would be a solution for that situation. To create such flowchart, group processes and steps to labeled rows or columns, and divide those groups with horizontal or vertical parallel lines. It is worth mentioning that there are different types of cross-functional flowcharts, like opportunity or deployment flowchart. This diagram shows a cross-functional flowchart that was made for a trading process. It contains 14 processes, distributed through 5 lines depicting the participants who interact with the process. Also there are connectors that show the data flow of information between processes. The cross-functional flowchart displays a detailed model of the trading process, as well as all participants in the process and how they interact with each other. The lines in the flowchart indicates the position, department and role of the trading process participants.

Picture: Cross-Functional Flowchart