More Freebies!

Here's a couple of free tools to help with your web production. The first tool is to help decide what content to keep above the page fold. The second is a great way to do quick mock-ups and click-thrus for early usability testing.

Foldspy

FoldSpy is a free tool which you can use to make sure your visitors see what you’d like them to see. Different browsers, operating systems, screen sizes and user preferences mean a visitor to your site doesn’t necessarily see what you see. To maximize revenue from your ads, you want them to be visible to the majority of your visitors without scrolling: “above the fold”. FoldSpy finds the fold. The service makes use of an overlay to present the areas which are highly popular or not popular at all - depending on the screen resolution and the browser window size.

More on page folds…Blasting the Myth of the Fold 

Users will scroll if they have to. “There is an astonishing amount of disbelief that the users of web pages have learned to scroll and that they do so regularly. Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, most of all our users.”

DENIM

DENIM is a system that helps web site designers in the early stages of design. DENIM supports sketching input, allows design at different refinement levels, and unifies the levels through zooming.

Try a DENIM site.