[IxDA Discuss] Tools for communicating styles to developers

[bjminihan at nc.rr.com]

We use Visio with callouts, to document Photoshop, screenshots or other callouts.  Folks tend to gravitate well to them, and the callout templates save a ton of time...

 - Bryan
http://www.bryanminihan.com

---- Gabriel Friedman <gabefriedman at earthlink.net> wrote: 
> Does anyone have any nifty ideas/thoughts/tools for creating design-specific style guides from photoshop mockups?
> 
> Basically, i've designed a site and now have to communicate the various styles - text, padding, margins, etc... - to the coders. 
> 
> Ideally, simply creating html rather than graphic mockups would save time (but add it to the design phase).
> 
> My current method of choice is using illustrator to create visual style guides, using a legend, etc... there are problems with this approach, mainly that it's time consuming and not comprehensive.
> 
> Any bright ideas out there?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gabe Friedman
> www.gabefriedman.com
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