What Are People Using to Make Those Awesome Linking Diagrams?

mouthpaw · Jan 5, 2012

There's a ton of these diagrams here and elsewhere: nice, neat diagrams with blocks for link sources and destinations, and lines showing the linking relationships... They're awesome and I have no idea how they're made, and I want to make mine!

What are people using?

marusia · Jan 5, 2012

Visio, Microsoft excel, Microsoft word...pick your poison. I could do the same thing with the smart art / shapes tools.

gorod · Jan 5, 2012

I am not sure about the real tool people used in their works. Just about my experience. Sorry if I did not understand your question correctly.

When I tried to create pictures with massive using linked diagramms, (for prezentation) I tried to search for a free and easy solution (do not have MS Office). Basically Linux drawing tools were not bad. As for the Windows - Inscape. Though these were not too primitive to use it freely with turning off the head.

Final solution for me was a picture editor in the Google docs. Diagramms can be aligned, you can choose diff. forms, arrows as well have many modifications etc. At least I stopped at this solution for creating diagramms.

marusia · Jan 5, 2012

gorod said:
I am not sure about the real tool people used in their works. Just about my experience. Sorry if I did not understand your question correctly.

When I tried to create pictures with massive using linked diagramms, (for prezentation) I tried to search for a free and easy solution (do not have MS Office). Basically Linux drawing tools were not bad. As for the Windows - Inscape. Though these were not too primitive to use it freely with turning off the head.

Final solution for me was a picture editor in the Google docs. Diagramms can be aligned, you can choose diff. forms, arrows as well have many modifications etc. At least I stopped at this solution for creating diagramms.

"open office" is free.

themidiman · Jan 5, 2012

Code:

https://bubbl.us

^^ Try them. I think that's what you're talking about.
I use them to plan out my SEO link strategy before I launch a site.

cyberzilla · Jan 5, 2012

Try Gliffy..you will like it!

Code:

http://www.gliffy.com/examples/

beazt · Jan 5, 2012

I usually settle with MS PowerPoint

genosse · Jan 5, 2012

I've been playing around with XMind lately - It does a pretty good job, and is free.

mouthpaw · Jan 5, 2012

D'ohf! I'm kinda thinking the Googlebutton would have saved you guys the breath. I wasn';t sure that I was using the right terms for what I was looking for, but yep, there it is: "create diagrams" Heh.

Thanks folks, these all look like gizzackly what I was looking for. Bubbl.us and gliffy look especially fun at first glance.

Off to play...

HFlame7 · Jan 5, 2012

Smart Draw is a good one. It's not "free," but it comes with a free trial to test it out.

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