Web Sites Are Difficult To Create
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by: DavidPeters
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It is no easy task to actually build a working site that matches a visual design created in a tool like Photoshop. Photoshop is designed to give total freedom to the artist. The web, on the other hand, is built on top of many confusing technologies and standards that place other concerns ahead of preserving visual design integrity.
This situation has understandably intimidated many users who are good at Photoshop but don't want to spend months or years learning the gory details of the internet such as XHTML, CSS, javascript, etc.
SiteGrinder 2 successfully turns Adobe Photoshop into an easy-to-use and powerful website design and production tool. While SiteGrinder is not aimed solely at the web neophyte, a SiteGrinder-equipped designer with no previous web experience can use only their Photoshop skills to go from concept to deployment of a professional, standards-compliant site in mere hours with no slicing or programming.
The difficulty of this task is invisible to the user as SiteGrinder builds graphics, text, and interactivity using modern web standard technologies and takes into account tricky requirements like cross-platform browser compatibility.
You are comfortable with Photoshop and SiteGrinder knows CSS, HTML, and web image formats. You create special layers, such as buttons, by adding "hints" to the layer names.
Often times the only things required to create interactivity such as "button", "rollover", and "popup" can be easily created using "hints". Once you've added a few hints in Photoshop you can simply open SiteGrinder and create your page with a simple mouse-click.
This unique system works the way you do, turning web design into a more creatively satisfying activity. Enable your web site's functionality as you design it, quickly testing it out live in a web browser whenever you feel like it.
You can even make major design changes, like choosing a new background color or image, at the very last minute without headaches using this easy workflow! SiteGrinder
You may wonder how SiteGrinder can make many web pages from a single Photoshop document. The answer is easy! Photoshop has a little-used but powerful tool called the "layer comps palette". This palette allows you to save and name particular document states, including the position and visibility of every layer.
You simply need to make your Photoshop document look the way a page on your site should and then make a layer comp. You then set up the next page and repeat. SiteGrinder will use these comps to decide what to include on the web pages it creates. Even more amazing: if your layer comp names match your button names SiteGrinder will link them automatically. You don't even have to give the URLs!
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