ConceptDraw WebWave: Product Overview

[Key Features]   [System Requirements]

ConceptDraw WebWave software is specially designed for professional webdesigners, webmasters, developers, architects and webdesign companies' management staff.

The product is essential tool on the stage of web site/application prototyping and design, page mocking-up and site-mapping.

ConceptDraw WebWave includes more than 4590 ready-made graphics, shapes, templates and wizards for quickly creating professional diagrams and drawings. The application runs both on PC and Macintosh and allows seamless files exchange and provides obvious benefits to individual and corporate users.

Key Features

Web Site Development Project - new

Integration with project management software is essential for web site development, and ConceptDraw WebWave is the first tool that supports working with task information. It allows adding start and due dates, duration, percentage of completion, cost and resources to any object from Web Site Map Shapes library that is used to plan a future site structure. The next step is to export this information into MS Project XML thus transforming it into complete project plan for further tracking and management.

Web Site Prototype Presentation - new

Site Prototype Builder can create a web site HTML presentation as well as builds a website prototype using the structure diagrams. You can preview a site structure, design and even a single page through a handy presentation template. To prepare a presentation just link shapes on a site map with hyperlinks leading to an image, CDD, TXT or HTML file that contains a page preview.

CSS Files support - new

Mock-up creation with ConceptDraw WebWave became much better due to the ability to apply user defined CSS files to a web page mock-up making possible to use existing color schemes, fonts and backgrounds.

Powerful Drawing Tools

ConceptDraw offers a set of vector drawing tools that can rival a professional illustration program. Besides, it knows what makes a diagram different from a drawing, and helps you create amazing diagrams quickly and easily. Customizable Grid and the Snap tool help position your shapes precisely. A number of Alignment, Distribution and Make Same tools will automate routine operations with multiple shapes. Unlimited number of layers is supported.

Alpha-channel (transparency) - new

The slider near Hide custom color button allows you to add transparency to your objects in order to make them more attractive or if you want to see objects located under. Move slider to the right to increase the transparency of the object and to the left to decrease it.

Smart Connectors

Lines stay linked to their shapes, so you don't need to redraw your diagram every time you move something. Smart connectors can flow around shapes on their way, display gaps or bridges where they cross other connectors. Every shape can be turned into a connector.

Flexible Interface

Quick-and-easy access to main tools and settings with customizable toolbars and floating dialogs let access main tools and settings quickly and easily. ConceptDraw WebWave adheres to the What You See Is What You Get principle and features anti-aliasing, bringing your diagramming to a new level of presentation quality.

Libraries & Wizards

ConceptDraw WebWave goes with dozens of collections of common shapes to help you create a number of different types of diagrams, and drawings.

It also allows to create your own customized drawing tools hands down by drawing your own shapes or dragging in existing graphics onto a new library. For more productive work, a number of task-based Wizards will guide you through the basic stages of creating documents.

ConceptDraw WebWave includes the following wizards:

• Website mapper
  Site Mapper analyzes the contents of a web site, and create the hyperlinked sitemap. The wizard also validates links and marks broken ones. The generated site map is ready to be published on your website...
  
  
• Site File Structure Scanner
  Site File Structure Scanner is specially designed for webmaster to explore and visualize the file structure of existent website. This wizard is best used when there is a task before you to learn the structure of an unfamiliar web site.
• Site Prototype Builder
  The wizard builds the website prototype using the structure diagrams created in ConceptDraw product line. There is a collection of templates that you can apply for each page or the site as a whole...
  
  
• To-Do Lists generator
  When the future website diagram is ready, the next step is to generate ToDo lists for you and your co-workers with the tasks and areas of work that they are responsible for. ConceptDraw WebWave includes To-Do lists Generator that is specially designed to automate this step. Generate ToDo lists and e-mail them to your colleagues in a few clicks!...
  
  
• Color Scheme Generator
  ConceptDraw WebWave Generator of color schemes and palettes allows to design nice-looking, harmonic and well-balanced web pages. With the Wizard you can easily find the best suited color scheme for the website pages based color theory...
  
  
• Gantt-Chart Wizard
  The Wizard helps you quickly and easily start working with Gantt charts for the website development project. You do not need to be experienced project manager to plan and manage the projects. Gantt-Chart Wizard guides you through each step to successfully completed web projects.

Styles

Styles are visual elements that define the look of shapes in your document. ConceptDraw allows to copy styles from other shapes, create and organize your own styles.

MS Visio Support

ConceptDraw WebWave supports XML for Visio, allowing you to exchange documents with MS Visio users.

Import & Export

ConceptDraw WebWave imports and exports files to a large number of raster, vector, multimedia and text formats, making it easy to exchange data with other applications. Apart from most popular graphic formats, it supports AutoCAD DXF files, allows to create and edit MS PowerPoint files, export documents to PDF and HTML.

Intelligent Shapes

ConceptDraw shapes are highly customizable. You can assign custom properties to them, add user-defined context menus, create links to other shapes, files or programs. ConceptDraw Basic scripts can be associated with shapes, providing virtually unlimited control over them.

Built-In Script Language

The built-in script language - ConceptDraw Basic - and support for the open XML for ConceptDraw format, as well as a number of other formats provides developers with powerful means of building complex customized solutions based on the ConceptDraw WebWave graphics engine.

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