Relatively Fixed

I love a free tool. Especially one that is useful and creative. I recently came across a great idea from the good people at Rain Creative Lab. They have a concept under testing called the Paper Browser that allows you to wireframe your website using a sheet of paper. This isn’t just any old piece of paper. I’ll let them explain.

The Concept is simple.
A sheet of paper used for creating a website wireframe. However, not the same kind of grid that you might have used before. I’ve taken into consideration the actual viewing resolution of your potential user.

Instead of looking at your site inside the browser, why not look at it on what the user sees.

There are many advantages: you can gauge the viewing perspective of your user. Thus, maximizing your possible design estate.
I’ve provided guides for design that uses a 960px, or design screen at 800px.

The whole paper is proportionally scaled at 1024×768 screen resolution.

Your design canvas is 1024 resolution minus the height of the browser toolbar and status bar.  The size has been properly measured to simulate the actual design estate you can work on.

Each grid is 32×32px in dimension. You can use this data to map out directly into Photoshop during production.

So that is that. They want a lot of feedback, so leave some comments or visit their site and tell them what you think. Huge thanks again to Rain Creative Lab for allowing me to share this resource with you guys. Download the files below.