Trying to create a website from scratch to match one created by programs such as Photoshop is no easy task. Photoshop, and programs like it, are designed to give total freedom to the designer. However, the web itself is comprised of many confusing languages and standards that place other concerns ahead of preserving visual design integrity.

The programming languages that are necessary to create visually pleasing web sites such as XHTML, CSS, javascript, etc., can take months or even years to learn. Understandably this situation has intimidated many users who are good at Photoshop but don't want to spend months or years learning the gory details of the internet.

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.

SiteGrinder can create graphics, text, and interactivity by using modern web standard technologies. It also takes into account many requirements like cross-platform browser compatibility, all without the user being aware of the background programming needed.

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 program works the way you do, actually turning the design of web pages into a more creatively satisfying activity. You can easily enable your web site's functionality as you design it and quickly testing it out live in a web browser whenever you feel like it.

Such a flexible workflow even allows you to make major design changes, like selecting a new background color, at the very last minute without headaches! SiteGrinder

You may be wondering how SiteGrinder can create many web pages from a single Photoshop document. The answer is simple really, Photoshop has a little-known but amazing tool called the "layer comps palette". This palette enables you to save and name a variety of 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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