Rich desktop app for HTML/CSS authoring

I work in an enterprise envrionment where we have varying levels of design/programming skill. One of our needs is for our designers or business analysts to be able to mockup screens without explicity writing HTML but in a way where nothing gets lost in translation to developers. We've been looking at Axure, but I've generally found it to be disappointing, if not plain annoying.

This looks much better.

Likes:

- It's a native application. We're not always connected when we need to prototype a screen, and, frankly we somehow haven't figured out the whole wi-fi/security balance thing. Native is great.

- I love that it uses bootstrap and provides a few template page options.

- Responsive options, proper element positioning options... lovely

Wants/questions:

- Customizable templates? Is it possible to alter or add to the default styles and template options? I.e. an in-house modified bootstrap or bootstrap-like option? Basically a way for the design lead to create custom elements and styles for use by the rest of the team.

- Ability to add new elements in snippets

- Maybe some basic logic, just enough to allow a simulation-type scenario. Although I would rather go without this than have the option over-complicate the interface.

I apologize if some of the wants are already possible; regardless I am definetly a customer.

They're not saying - or it was taking too long for me to find. As a general rule, if there's a big "download" button and they're urging you to try something before they will give up any real info about it (or worse, insetead of), well that strikes me as scammy and I just link away.

Also include a mailing list. I'd like to follow the development of this app (cause it would come in handy for me). But I don't always remember to check a website.

1. along with the app another window started which was like the menu with a menu item "File" represented by a horizontal line at the very top of my screen, i just right clicked from task bar and closed it, main app still worked.

2. tried to open saved html file with browser (assigned to chrome) but the url was wrong, it was missing the drive letter so nothing showed.

3. after closing page and then choosing another template the app vanishes.

At first glance it is ok, maybe better suited for users without much experience with browser tools and code. However it provides viewing in different screen sizes, code snippets and drag and drop which are helpful.

Would be nice to be able to alter LESS variables and recompile.

  curl -I http://www.pingendo.com/Pingendo.dmg
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: Apache
  Last-Modified: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:24:34 GMT
  Content-Length: 38477827
  Content-Type: application/octet-stream

I personally use Zurb more, so if I could start with that... even if I can make my own template, it would be fine.

1. Make this as a webapp. Should work anywhere, like gDocs! Think: Anyone can collaborate, so the ideas and possibilities are more.

BTW, Why did you go the platform way? any particular reason worth mentioning?

2. Have a forum for knowledgebase, to answer FAQ's, ideas and take new-questions. See OSQA or Askbot, might help you a lot in this direction.

3. Show your users, all the cool possibilities. Videos and use-cases matters most to convince anyone to try your app.

4. Get more templates, widgets(short-codes) and page-layouts. This will be cool to start-off!

Will give this a try on the weekend.