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Alva

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Sketch your webpage or document design or create your personalized styleguide by easily editing the content of each page and carefully arranging all the elements. #Digital designer  #Create styleguide  #Web designer  #Styleguide  #Wireframe  #Designer  

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Alva is a digital design utility that enables designers to create their website mockups without effort, leaving the programming part to the expert engineers and focusing on content and layout more than anything else.

Targeting designers and pattern developers, Alva enables them to build their sketch by working with exactly the same frontend components as the developers do, sharing the object library. This ensures streamlined communication between the designer and the programmers, and a more efficient collaboration amongst team members.

Upon launch, Alva enables users to create a new workspace or continue where they left off with an existing one. A project can contain multiple pages, simulating the structure of a webpage.

All the components that are used in the current page are displayed in a tree view, and new objects can be added using simple drag and drop actions. The order of the elements can be changed in the same manner. The library includes buttons, dropdown lists, headlines, images, layouts, spaces, text boxes, and more.

Each component has certain properties that can be easily edited. For instance, layouts feature direction, a maximum width, and a background color, all customizable.

Once users are done sketching concepts on the worksheet, the development team can work with Alva as well to write HTML and Javascript code and make all the components interact with each other.

The development tools include an editable code editor and a console, as well as support for event listeners, breakpoints, custom styles, and more. The editor displays errors and warnings in the code.

It's interesting that Alva means to facilitate the collaboration between the designers and the development team, allowing them to work together and create the project from the initial styleguide to the final responsive and interactive webpage.

Such an application might benefit from targeted and cross-platform preview (meaning previewing directly in a browser on the system and simulating preview on different devices, including mobile ones). On top of that, users might want to give relevant names to the components they are adding to the page, as the webpage structure is difficult to visualize at the moment. A website map generator would be a feature worth having.

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Alva 0.9.1 / 1.0.0 Alpha 66

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Alva-0.9.1.exe
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Alva - When running Alva, you must select whether to open an existing space or create a new project.Alva - Alva displays all the components of your pages in a panel, allowing you to add new objects to the page using drag and drop.Alva - You can use the File menu of Alva to create a new page or a new project, or generate a styleguide.Alva - screenshot #4Alva - screenshot #5
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