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.
Understandably 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. have been intimidated by this situation.
An easy to use program has been created to work alongside Photoshop. SiteGrinder 2 successfully turns Adobe Photoshop into a powerful website design and production tool. To be sure, SiteGrinder is not aimed solely at the web beginner, a SiteGrinder-equipped designer with no prior web design experience can use only their Photoshop skills to go from initial concept to a full deployment of a professional, standards-compliant site in a few hours.
Behind the scenes SiteGrinder creates graphics, text, and interactivity using the latest in web standard technologies and also takes into account more of the technological requirements such as 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.
The nice thing about this system is that it works the way you do, which turns web design into a uniquely satisfying activity. You can enable your web site’s functionality as you design it, and easily test it in a web browser whenever you feel like it.
This flexible program even allows you to make major last minute design changes, such as selecting a new background image, without headaches! 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.
All you have to do is make the document look the way a page on your site should and then make a layer comp. Then set up the next page and repeat. SiteGrinder will use those comps to decide what to include on the web pages it produces. Even cooler: if your layer comp names match your button names then SiteGrinder will link them automatically. You don’t even have to provide URLs!
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