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Create Many Linked Pages From One Document
Pages come from buttons
Almost every button on a web page represents a link to some other page. SiteGrinder knows this, and therefore assumes that all buttons in your Photoshop file (buttons are just layers with the word “-button” added to the end of their names) will link somewhere. If you have a button on your page named “gallery-button” then SiteGrinder assumes you will also be creating a page called “Gallery” that this button will link to. In this case you don’t even need to indicate the link to SiteGrinder, it will program it automatically. In other cases you can easily specify links to pages you aren’t generating with SiteGrinder, whether on your own site or anywhere else on the internet.
Defining what goes on specific pages
SiteGrinder has two options for determining the contents of specific pages. If you are using Photoshop CS or later you can employ the “layer comp” feature. Otherwise you can use SiteGrinder’s own page definition tool.
Either way the process consists of showing the layers that you would like on a given page, hiding the rest, and then taking a kind of snapshot of the document very similar to snapshots in Photoshop’s History palette. You then give this snapshot a name, such as “Gallery”. This tells SiteGrinder that you want to create a page called “Gallery” with the currently visible layers as its contents. SiteGrinder is smart enough to match up this page with any buttons named “Gallery-button” on any of your pages and in any of your menus. SiteGrinder will automatically programmed the buttons to link to the matching pages when when it builds the site.
Managing Pages
Within the SiteGrinder window it is easy to adjust page-specific settings like background color and alignment. Each page can have different settings, making it easy to create a home page that is centered in the browser window while all other pages are positioned in the upper left.
For detailed information on page creation and management, see the SiteGrinder User’s Guide.