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What is the difference between SiteGrinder Basic & Pro?

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The main mission of SiteGrinder Basic has always been to convert Photoshop designs to web pages with particular stress given to maintaining fidelity to the original Photoshop design. The Pro version, however, does the things you cannot do with Photoshop alone: galleries, flash slideshows, video import, email forms, tiles, expanding pages, importing HTML and much more.

Some hints are usable by Basic and Pro, but many are reserved for Pro only. The complete hint list for SiteGrinder 2

Feature	Basic	Pro
convert page designs from Photoshop to working web sites	x	x
styled text in Photoshop can be converted to styled HTML text	x	x
Buttons (graphic, text, or both)	x	x
Drop down menus	x	x
multiple pages	x	x
scrolling text	x	x
hyperlinks galore (email links, urls, links to files and much more)	x	x
automatic linking of buttons and pages (a great timesaver)	x	x
linked phrases and words in text fields	x	x
user controllable compression	x	x
All output is XHTML 1.1 valid.	x	x
Everything uses CSS. Tables are not used for layout.	x	x
support for Flash, QuickTime, and other external media.		x
image galleries (galleries have their own page long feature list)		x
slideshow creation (SiteGrinder builds the Flash .swf for you)		x
forms (type them in Photoshop, SiteGrinder outputs them)		x
email form support - both CGI and PHP (can't get much easier than this)		x
vertically expanding documents with footers.		x
external HTML import (very sophisticated, Photoshop can now be used to "skin" external content)		x
dynamic binding of external HTML via PHP require(); Server Side Includes, or <object> inclusion.		x
place your own HTML directly into the Photoshop document.		x
tiled backgrounds (interior and exterior, as well as integration with vertically growing documents)		x
option to output as <img> for semantically significant graphics.		x