Linux tool for Web Comps

> I'm working to improve the aesthetic appeal of the sites I design and
> using CSS to do so. One of the books that I have, "The Principles of
> Beautiful Web Design", recommends the use of "web comps". These are
> basically drawings of the page using a tool that lets you get these
> drawings done quickly. The tool the author, Jason Beaird, uses is
> Firworks.

>
> I have a virtual machine installed on my computer in order to run Windows
> programs, but as a general rule I try to avoid doing so. In addition
> Firworks isn't free, and I would like to avoid the cost of the package.
>
> Is there a good program for doing these Web comps under Linux?
>
> I've asked this question on the Gimp forums and what I found was that Gimp
> probably isn't suited to this problem without using extensions. For
> example, Gimp will not allow a text area to contain more than one style of
> text. If you are using Gimp for this purpose, please let me know. If you
> have a set of extensions for Gimp that help you improve your productivity,
> I'd really like to know what they are.
>
> I apologize for posting this to so many groups (four I think), but I tried
> posting to compp.infosystems.www.authoring.tools once already without
> success.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>

>"The Principles of
> Beautiful Web Design", recommends the use of "web comps".

> I apologize for posting this to so many groups (four I think), but I tried
> posting to compp.infosystems.www.authoring.tools once already without
> success.