[ANNC] SiteGrinder 2.0 Released.

Question

I wanted to let everyone know that SiteGrinder 2.0 has been
released.
http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder
SiteGrinder is a plug-in for Photoshop that converts layered
Photoshop
designs to working web sites. It can be used as a standalone
tool, but it
is also a great tool to use in conjunction with DreamWeaver.
I'm sure that everyone who follows this forum has had to work
with a
Photoshop source file from a designer at one time or another.
And as we
all know, slicing into tables via ImageReady is ill advised.
The
alternative, copying and pasting by hand, is only reasonably
feasible if
the design isn't aggressive. Furthermore, it's a waste of
precious
manpower - why spend all the time re-creating in DreamWeaver
what someone
else has already created in Photoshop?
This is where SiteGrinder comes in. It seamlessly converts
Photoshop
designs to working web pages and does so quickly.
The new 2.0 version has two editions, Basic and Pro. Here is
an
incomplete list of features:
- layers are named with hints (like -button) to denote
functionality. The
rest is automatic
- text buttons with custom rollovers
- graphic buttons and rollovers (done with CSS, no
javascript, uses one
graphic file so no preload issues)
- hierarchical drop down menus (made from individual buttons
or just
extracted from single text layers)
- controllable compression
- multiple page output (uses Photoshop layercomps to define
individual
pages)
- hyperlinks in text
- scrolling text
And now in the Pro edition only:
- support for full featured image galleries - no more using
canned
templates. Design your gallery page in Photoshop. I could
write a page
about galleries alone. Thumbnails, scrolling sheets of
thumbnails, image
metadata incorportated directly into page text, everything
you want is
supported.
- creation of Flash slideshows
- forms (yes, you define them in Photoshop). SiteGrinder
will write out
for you the PHP code needed for a PHP email form. CGI mail
and generic
forms also supported.
- vertically growing document. - You can now have page size
based on
content.
- importing of external media like Flash and QuickTime
- importing of external HTML (with link remapping, CSS
support and more)
- late binding to external HTML via PHP require() or
<object> tags.
- background tiles
SiteGrinder 2.0 is much faster than SiteGrinder 1, it is more
streamlined,
it writes out better HTML and CSS, and gives you a lot more
control over
its output. We, the SiteGrinder development team, are very
concerned about
compliance to web standards, accessibility and other best
practices and as
much as we are able we've made SiteGrinder do things the
"right" way, even
if that is the hard way.
Allright, I've written too much as it is. Check out
SiteGrinder, feel free
to ask any questions.
Chris Perkins
Media Lab, Inc.
http://www.medialab.com
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Answer 1

cairo, pango, glib2, gtk2, libgnomeui, gtk-engines and several image loader plugins entered testing. Changes:
- speed improvements due to cairo
- new fileselector
- asynchronous gnomevfs fileselector, no longer hangs while browsing a remote share
Known bugs:
- gnome-terminal about screen doesn't close, will backport fix from CVS for this
- gedit can't browse network:///, displays smb-root.desktop
- some theme engines or image loader plugins are not updated to the 2.10 module dir, please report bugs for these.