[Sigia-l] Axure

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Fred Beecher
> Sent: 25 August 2006 14:58
> To: IA List
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Axure
> 
> On 8/25/06, David Carruthers <dave.carruthers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > - Does it have a "backgrounds" concept? I use that a lot in Visio.
> > >
> > Not in exactly the same way.
> >
> > The same affect is achieved using a locked master as the background 
> > for all pages required (the only pain being if you wanted to send 
> > another item 'to back' then the background master would be on top of
> > it)
> 
> The "master" concept in Axure is one of the major advantages 
> it has over Visio, in my opinion. When you change a master, 
> *every instance* of that master in the current prototype 
> updates to reflect that change. There are tons of things I 
> now use masters for... search results, navigation, etc. If I 
> were to try to accomplish the same thing in Visio, I'd need 
> to create a tangled web of background pages... no thanks! 
> (Regarding locked masters... I've never bothered to lock 
> them... I've never needed to.)
> 

Indeed it was this "modularisation" in Axure that first piqued my
interest, since at the time I was using symbols in Freehand to try and
achieve the same thing - and failing. I've since started using Fireworks
for this reason though. I've still never used Axure for real, and am
pretty sure that none of the so called "top 10" web development agencies
here in the UK are either, if only because it would be hard to persuade
them to standardise on a tool that was made by a relatively obscure
company. 

Jonathan



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