SiteGrinder
SiteGrinder is a commercial plug-in made by MediaLab, bought by CADUET CORPORATION. Now all old users were shut down from activations. It converts website designs made in Adobe Photoshop directly to HTML/CSS.
SiteGrinder is available for Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.
Features
Hints
The user attaches special words, called "Hints", to layer names in Photoshop. These hints tell the plug-in about specific functionality of layers, layer groups, and layer comps.
Standards Compliance
SiteGrinder produces XHTML 1.1 compliant HTML and CSS. User-added code is not affected.
Web Images
Image and shape layers are converted to img file that will shown into your website or any part og the page
Styled Photoshop Text becomes Styled Web Text
SiteGrinder converts Photoshop Type layers directly into styled CSS text on web pages. Photoshop character and paragraph styles are preserved along with their settings. Text can optionally scroll and have multiple hyperlinked words and phrases.
Buttons with Rollovers and Popups
Text, Image, and Hybrid buttons can have rollovers, and popups by adding the hints "button", "rollover", and "popup" to the end of layer names or layer group names.
Buttons help to control any features along with the "rollover" and popup is an extra activity while you are on page
Rapid Image Portfolios/Galleries
SiteGrinder has features aimed at creating web image galleries. These include automatic thumbnail and thumbnail navigation generation, automatic sequential navigation button programming, support for custom layouts for different image aspect ratios, thorough support for metadata inclusion on pages, and creation of multiple galleries from a design. As of version 3.1, the Site Grinder forum on the main website has had a few people not able to get this function to work properly.[1]
Multi-Level Menus Without Programming
SiteGrinder can create menus and submenus from text layers, graphical layers, or a combination of both. The "-menu" hint, added to a 5 line type layer for example, creates a five item text menu.
Multi-page Creation
SiteGrinder generates multiple pages in a single pass. Buttons automatically link to pages whose names they share. Page content is determined using Photoshop's layer comps feature.
Griffin Space Jam
Allows one to make a photoshop with themselves and their best friend, Michael Jordan. Actually, it was me and Michael Jordan and the cast of Space Jam, it was called 'Me and Space Jam.' You can then take 'Me and Space Jam' and turn it into a website using MediaLab's SiteGrinder technology.[2]
Email Forms and Generic Forms
SiteGrinder 2 Pro employs a straightforward way to define multiple form elements in a single Photoshop type layer. PHP and CGI email forms are supported, as well as generic forms.
Background Colors & Tiles
SiteGrinder 2 supports custom background colors for different areas of your pages. SiteGrinder 2 Pro adds a variety of background image tile features, including vertical and/or horizontal repeating tiles and "fixed" background images that remain in place as content scrolls on top.
Flash slideshows Generation
SiteGrinder 2 Pro can create animated Flash slideshows from folders of jpeg images, choose different transition styles, durations, and assign hyperlinks for each slide.
Inclusion of External Media
SiteGrinder 2 Pro supports inclusion of multimedia content( such as Flash, Animated GIF, QuickTime & Windows video, and MP3 music are supported media types. Users can also link to media from remote locations over the internet.)
Resize Resistance
SiteGrinder 2 Pro can create page areas which adjust vertically on the fly if the browser changes font sizes or if content is edited after SiteGrinder builds the pages. "Footer" elements positioned below these areas will move up or down as needed to accommodate the new size.
Support for PHP, In-Line or External HTML
SiteGrinder hides the complexity of HTML and other web infrastructure, but for maximum adaptability SiteGrinder 2 Pro does allow advanced users to add arbitrary code to their pages wherever they like. SiteGrinder 2 Pro can intelligently import folders of HTML files when it builds to create a huge number of pages from a single page design.
SiteGrinder supports various server side markup, including HTML Object, PHP, and Apache SSI. This allows sitewide content like navigation menus to be kept in a single file. An edit to this file will alter every page that imports this file at page-load time.
SiteGrinder's Current Status and Future
SiteGrinder was developed Originally by MediaLab Incorporated, after some years as the prime standard for web design Medialab was dissolved as a company where CADUET CORP. took over then the project.
After some rounds of negotiations CADUET CORP acquired an exclusive license to the source code of SiteGrinder. CADUET CORP took Sitegrinder 3 under its portfolio and is continuing the development of this Photoshop Plugin. You can visit the rebranded SiteGrinder now called SitegrinderBLUE at Sitegrinderblue.com.
SiteGrinderBLUE 3.8 will be the first version of SiteGrinderBLUE that will be released under CADUET CORP. development, the version will be released both in English and Spanish. this will be the base version for future versions of SiteGrinderBLUE.
CADUET CORP. is in negotiations with several educational institutions in Latin America to adopt SiteGrinderBLUE as the preferred Web Design tool for their educational system.
SiteGrinderBLUE 4.0 is also in the works and will bring to the table features not present in any other tool of its kind, the development is on the way and this version is scheduled to be released at the end of 2015.
The Medialab.com domain as well as the old sitegrinder.com domain are pointing to another site now that medialab has been dissolved as a company. Any future questions in regards to the product should be directed to CADUET CORP. at http://www.caduet-corp.com or through the products website http://www.sitegrinderblue.com
Version History
SiteGrinder is, in a way a sequel to PhotoWebber and PhotoWebber 2 application software also from Media Lab.
SiteGrinder 1.0 was released in January 2005
SiteGrinder 2.0 Basic & Pro was released in May 2006
SiteGrinder 3.0 Platform with eCommerce and Control add-ons released in April 2010
SiteGrinderBLUE 3.8 First SiteGrinderBLUE Version that will be available to the public in the first quarter of 2015
SiteGrinderBLUE 4.0 TBA
References
- ↑ http://www.medialab.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8077
- ↑ McElroy, Griffin. "Me and Space Jam". Griffin Space Jam. Retrieved 17 December 2015.