SiteGrinder Creates Websites from Photoshop Designs

SiteGrinder Creates Websites from Photoshop Designs
Media Lab Inc. today announced the release of SiteGrinder 1.0, a new website production plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. An intuitive method of adding one-word hints, such as "rollover" or "menu", to the names of layers in Photoshop allows web beginners and experts alike to convert a Photoshop design into a sophisticated web site in a single click -- whether for ultra-rapid prototyping or for final production.

SiteGrinder generates styled and even scrolling web text, rollover buttons, popups, and multi-level menus. Interactive elements can be constructed from graphics, text, or a mix of both, and function across multiple web pages that are automatically linked to one another. "The elegance of SiteGrinder's basic idea -- that naming Photoshop layers is a great way to indicate the intended functions of those layers -- produces an unusual combination of both power and simplicity. Using SiteGrinder is a little like finally getting a TiVo after struggling with your VCR for ten years!" explains Media Lab President Tom Summerall.

The busy schedules of web technicians often delay the website projects of graphic designers and marketing departments. Once technicians are finally able to begin work there is often confusion about exactly how the needed web pages should behave. SiteGrinder allows a designer to express their functionality r