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glyphomat

12:09 pm on Jun 15, 2010 (gmt 0)

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hi - I'm an experienced web dev but I wanted to get opinions on any good solutions for this:

I need to put 5 decision tree flowcharts on a site

several run to two printed pages in depth - there's only 2 boxes at any horizontal level - arrrows from one box to another can all be straight - their direction is straight down or angled 45 degrees

I'd like to have round corners on the boxes
I'd like it to zoom expand (if possible)

it's for a charity site, with a broad range of users so also needs to be as accessible as possible

so options are :
do it as a bunch of gifs with alt tags and tab sequencing

do as a Flash file (import from a vector draw program)

tables (where I can add round corners in the corner tds) and nest them in divs and inline style them to get them in the right place

pay for an online flowchart scheme - but would need to be low cost

they all have pros and cons!
any opinions very much appreciated
thanks

bill

5:58 am on Jun 16, 2010 (gmt 0)

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For something that large you might want to consider a dynamic Flash map of some sort that would expand and contract. Nobody wants to scroll that much to see one of these charts.

tangor

7:57 am on Jun 16, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Perhaps I'm old school in this, but I would suggest an interactive PDF, which zooms/shrinks as necessary.

piatkow

9:44 pm on Jul 3, 2010 (gmt 0)

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My solution would be to download a demo copy of a good CASE tool with a "publish to web" option and get the job done before the trial period expired.

Alex_TJ

10:56 am on Jul 11, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I had the same problem. In the end I just put up a gif image. With 2 colours it turned out to be pretty small anyway, and everyone can follow the yes/no logic (ok, except the visually impaired...)