As we carry such exercises, we tried the following ways:
- using Powerpoint
- using Dreamweaver and HTML
You could do it with DW if you stick to using 'layers' that you can move around and so on. If you start doing HTML with stylesheets and so on, the customer will focus on graphical issues and not functional ones.
In Powerpoint, it is clear that is is a kind of model and the customer will live with it when you use things like 'pages are blue', 'informations blocks are cyan' and 'actionable items are orange'.
Something efficient was combining the two:
- the powerpoint outlining the logic of the site
- the HTML prototype showing 'real' screens
When having the two views, you can either focus on presentation or logic but you know which one you are adressing in a workshop.
