For Immediate Release
Longmont, CO - May 23, 2005 - Media Lab Inc. today announced the release of WellRounded 1.0, a new website production extension for DreamWeaver.
WellRounded lets DreamWeaver users add rounded corner rectangles directly to their HTML documents without leaving DreamWeaver. Moreover, the HTML and CSS that WellRounded outputs fits nicely into the DreamWeaver layout view, works in all popular browsers, and validates as XHTML 1.1. WellRounded rectangles can be stretched, positioned inline or absolutely, and be made to fit their content dynamically - without breaking or artifacts.
WellRounded supports user-definable round corner radius, color, background color, feathering, drop shadows, inner shadows, and borders. It is a complete solution to a commonly vexing problem. WellRounded rectangles are valid HTML and CSS and .gif files. They have been designed to be used as floatable containers and to fit into liquid layout designs.
"It seems like such a simple thing, but the reality is that these little graphic details are painfully labor-intensive to make and fraught with problems." says Chris Perkins, Media Lab CEO. "Many a designer would like to enclose their content in nice round cornered containers, but they usually resort to shortcuts like plastering a large, inflexible image into the page. Why? Because it's very labor intensive to get all the pieces and code working, especially across all the browsers. WellRounded just does it - it creates all the graphics, writes the HTML, writes the CSS, and it works everywhere."
Well Rounded produces very flexible HTML and CSS which allow it to fit easily into the plans of every designer. "When we started this we knew we had to do it the DreamWeaver way, so that users would know what to expect," commented Tom Summerall, President of Media Lab, "but we also knew that the rectangles had to be robust enough to work as floating elements, inline, relative, whatever people want. The ability to have the rectangles expand and contract based on content size or browser window size is key to being able to use in liquid layout designs."