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If you design, develop, or architect Websites, then OverSite is the app you’ve been waiting for… even if you didn’t know it! OverSite makes it simple to mock up and prototype your Website. You can quickly define your site’s overall structure… and OverSite will automatically generate a graphical site map. Creating wireframes of your individual pages—complete with hyperlink navigation between pages—is a breeze. You can attach notes to your wireframes to provide further details. And once you’re done, you can export your site structure to a number of different formats. OverSite’s rich feature set includes: Get started quickly
Widgets and wireframes with ease
Don’t like the default look of the components? Customize them however you want them to; size, colors, border sizes, fonts, and more can all be easily modified. Even the overall painting effect can be set to anywhere from no effect at all, to subtle shading, to glassy Web 2.0 effects. Don’t want to tweak the look and feel of every component individually? Just define your own custom styles and apply them to all of your components with the click of a button. But OverSite’s just getting started at that point. Its Composite tool lets you construct your own complex components, based on OverSite’s built-in components, that you can apply over and over again throughout your wireframes. Because let’s face it… repetition sucks! OverSite’s alignment, arrangement, and even-distribution tools let you quickly place components onto a wireframe, then even more quickly lay the out properly. Take advantage of a section’s wireframe canvases to create partial layouts that will appear in all of that section’s pages. Want to create a slight variation on an existing page? Don’t start from scratch with a new page; don’t even start with a cut & paste copy of the existing page! Just create a Version of the page, and make your modifications there!
Clarify your mockups
And lots more…OverSite’s list of features goes on and on and on… From autogenerated—yet fully-customizable—sitemaps,to built-in interaction testing (in regular or full-screen mode), to a plethora of exporting options, there’s a lot of functionality packed into this tiny price! What are people saying about OverSite?“This is the most full-featured and easy-to-use IA/wireframing/prototyping tool that I’ve come across and frankly I’m amazed that I’ve taken so long to discover it (it’s been around for 3 years).”
“Thank you very much for creating OverSite – from my point of view it’s a blessing.”
“I have been using it for a week in two different projects and I’m impressed. Does what it says very well. Building the wireframes and prototyping the navigation is very fast and painless.” “I’ve been using this great little program for awhile, and the more I use it, the more useful I find it. The developer is friendly and helpful as well, and has even added bits of functionality that I’d asked for!”
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July 29th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Try Link returns a “Service Temporarily Unavailable” error. Any feedback from people using this? I use OmniGraffle to layout sites. What does this offer that I would “need it”? I also use LogHound’s SiteMap plugin for my RapidWeaver sites.
July 29th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
This does look interesting for laying out and planning a website. I had a version 2 demo which looked just awful. This new version is much better looking! I do suppose I have less than 24 hours to make a decision.
@harringg
Ooooooh… Rapidweaver & SiteMap plugin! A super combo!
~ Denny doublePLUSdeals
July 29th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
@harringg,
I’ve used Oversite for awhile, and OmniGraffle. It’s like this: OmniGraffle is good for general purpose diagramming. But OverSite is perfect if you’re specifically mocking up websites, especially if you’re mocking up more than just a page or two. It’ll also generate a site map for you, if that matters to you.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:34 am
I spent more than a few minutes with this app, and at first I was desperate to find some sort of tutorial for things like, “How the heck do you repeat content like navigation links for an entire section?” But using the sample site that they provide in the DMG, I was able to figure that stuff out in a matter of minutes. I guess that means that the program is somewhat intuitive — even though it is using a very different concept and approach then I’ve ever encountered before.
I agree with others that this tool is really geared for mockups of websites (and maybe also applications) and not charts and stuff that OmniGraffle would handle better. But in the task of mocking up websites, I think Oversite does a very good job. I need something like this every once in a while, so I think I might bite on the MacZot price. Thanks.
July 30th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Where to download? Clicking on Try brings me to a page of binary code, right-click and Save link As… downloads a file called OverSightMac.dmg.gz that is only 384 bytes.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:33 am
@harringg
I also got the binary code the first time. For you, you probably escaped out of that and then tried “save as.” But your browser thought it had the whole file from the first time. Clear your cache and try save as again…or download the trial from the taubler.com website instead.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Is there an upgrade discount? I’ve been using version 2 for a while now, and I can recommend it, but version 3 looks like it has quite a few improvements. I’ve held off upgrading because of the price, though. An upgrade discount would ease things. Thanks!
July 30th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Hi, this is Dave from the OverSite team.
The comments about other software like OmniGraffle, versus OverSite, are about spot on. OverSite doesn’t try to compete with OG for general purpose diagramming; it’s really focused on creating wireframes, sitemaps, and interaction design.
Some specific examples include the fact that OverSite lets you define a website structure (i.e. files within folders and subfolders) in a single project; the ability to create a layout for a section that appears within all of that section’s pages; page versions; hyperlinking and the Click-thru browser, etc. Basically, the project is treated as an integrated website rather than a collection of diagrams.
@harringg, and anyone having download issues: you can try this URL as well: http://taubler.com/oversite/OverSiteMac.zip
@Walker Argendeli: Yup, there is an upgrade policy, viewable here: http://taubler.com/oversite/OverSiteMac.zip.
@Denny Crane: Thanks for the positive feedback on the new look & feel. :)
Thanks everyone for the comments, and for taking a look at OverSite!
July 30th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Java :(
July 30th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Hi Dave (from Oversite),
I’m feeling indecisive about making a purchase…
and would like to pose a couple of questions to you.
1) In 3 sentences (or less), why should a website builder/author purchase your program? ie/ what problem(s) does it solve for them?
2) Where is development going on OverSite? ie/ what can be expected in the next 3 to 6 months?
~ Denny doublePLUSdeals
PS. Thank you for stopping in on this blog. :)
July 30th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
I have been playing around with this most of the day and while I like most of the features, I really hate the file dialog boxes. Very un-mac-like. It makes it difficult to get to external drives. I hope this will be improved in the near future.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
I guess I should be more specific… I am talking about the import/export dialog boxes.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Hi Denny,
I’d be happy to help out as best as I can.
1) OverSite is designed to help you–in a quick and easily modifiable way–plan out the website (or other software application) that you plan to build. While you probably wouldn’t use it to output your final product, you’d use it quickly create mockups of the site/application, attach notes to the mockups if necessary, wire up hyperlinks so that you can click through pages, and generate a sitemap. From there, you can test your mockups yourself to see if they make sense, and can also present them to your client/team-members/etc either by using OverSite’s built in presentation tools or by exporting to any number of formats.
(Yes, technically, that was three sentences. :))
2. As you can tell by the 3.0.3 version designation, we recently released version 3, and having been focusing on minor releases. Those releases have centered around fixing minor bugs that we’d discovered, plus a few minor feature enhancements. We’ll continue on that path for the next few months, focusing now mainly on memory and performance enhancements.
After that (maybe a few months down the line), we’ll probably have a somewhat major release–but still 3.x so that your current regsitration code would be valid–that adds more features. Then, it will be time to start working on version 4 (while, in the meantime, attending to version 3 as necessary with any bug fix releases, etc.)
Thanks again, and I hope that helps!
Dave
July 30th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
@Stevie,
Thanks for the feedback; it’s much appreciated. The native dialogs were making it difficult to select folders (as opposed to specific files), which is why we went for a more custom route for those specific dialogs. But we can definitely expend the extra effort to try to get the native ones to work.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Thanks to both the developer and the sample site the developer provides, I’ve done something I *rarely* do – I’m buying a Java-based app for Mac OS X. I buy a lot of software [yes, it's a problem; i need to check into Software Anonymous ASAP], but I also develop Mac software, so I tend to like to see what others are doing and how they are presenting certain UI ideas to the end user. I’m not a fan of JAVA apps due to their non-Mac like interface, so it takes a *lot* to earn my attention enough to even bother to evaluate a JAVA app, let alone buy one.
Congrats to Dave – he and his software convinced me. :)
/vjl/