Al - great post. Here at Dell Consumer in Europe, we are looking for exactly the same kind of QA / site change sign off tool that is intuitive, easy to use, and easy to implment and maintain. Today, our QA sign-off process is cumbersome. I'd love a tool where each country owner in my team to do exactly what you suggest - viewing and commenting on a single screen on every page they have to check before it goes live, with all comments being captured into a workflow tool fo the "this change has been made" updates back to the reviewers

Hope that someone out there can recommend something!

Angus

On 14:13:36 23 January 2008 AlLoehnis wrote:

Thanks Ashley (long time..hope all's well!). Axure looks great for collaboration around wireframes/prototypes and requirements scoping.

I guess the problem I'm trying to solve is more around content rather than transaction-driven sites , where clients often have lots of people who want to review content and page layouts before they go live.

I was thinking that a web interface could be used to allow comments to be made on-screen and then have all comments collated and a workflow  applied so that one can manage the iterative process of receiving and implementing changes.

Online 'post-it' notes applications are half way there, but this functionality seems to be geared towards social/collaborative tagging uses. Guess we could try and adapt that concept though. Failing which we resort to rigorous enforcement of project management processes!

On 10:15:28 23 January 2008 Ashley wrote:

Hi Al

Have you come across Axure - I think that is more for prototypes / wireframes rather than actual websites though? I've never used it myself but I know people who say it's great for prototyping in a collaborate way. Have a look and see what you think.

Regards

Ashley Friedlein
CEO
E-consultancy.com

On 09:16:18 23 January 2008 AlLoehnis wrote:

Thanks Chris - more specifically I'm looking for a tool which will allow people to mark-up web pages online in some way and then aggregate the mark-ups of multiple people and provide some workflow around those. Ever come across something like that?