I am always looking for great tools to improve my web design and development experience and workflow. I found a great one recently that I’ve toyed with on the side, and am about to fully integrate into my design + development workflow: Jumpchart.

What I like

• It spits out clean code
  I can come out of the blocks less worried about my markup.
• Super simple export
  This was my biggest concern going in. I’m glad to see it implemented so elegantly.
• Price
  Very reasonable.

My concerns

• Will my less technical clients think that this is the actual website that I’m building and not just a model?
  In all fairness, this is probably more my problem than Jumpchart’s :-); it’s up to me to make this clear.
• Does it play nicely with CMS?
  I use CMS for most of my clients (WordPress, Joomla, SilverStripe, Textpattern). That nice, clean code that Jumpchart gives me to build upon could quickly turn to rubbish if using one of these systems. I think that a nice thing to have here would be something that would take the XHTML and make it translatable into a theme for a CMS. Hopefully the Jumpchart guys can help me out with this :-).

All in all, I think that this is a really solid offering, providing a fresh way for me and my clients to think about the most important parts of a website: the content and its flow.