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How do you prototype a large site?

I am working on rewriting a large application based on VB6. We are moving from Windows Forms to web deployment using ASP.Net. There are about 50 key users, and all of them are internal to the company.

We need an effective way to try out various projects in order to explore the information architecture of the site, the workflow and overall appearance. Ideally, the prototype would look good enough to show users to collect feedback.

A few drop-down menus or ajax-style controls would be useful for demonstrating our ideas, but not at the cost of rapid prototyping.

It is too early to exit Visual Studio, and we need something more than a pen and paper or Visio ... Any suggestions?

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Jeff Atwood had a good article about this:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001091.html

We used the latest Visio project, and although the screens of Visio documents look almost identical to the final result, I would recommend not to make a prototype of an ideal pixel. Simple rectangles and simple coloring are better and give developers and developers more freedom.

In our case, some screens were developed by a person without a good knowledge of the limitations of web applications. Depending on the team members, this can lead to endless discussions about what is possible and what is not.

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