MediaLab News
December 15, 2011, 2:28 pm
December 15, 2011 15:28 ET
For Immediate Release
Media Lab Releases SiteGrinder 3.5
Media Lab Adds Power to Its Popular Website Development Plug-In for Photoshop
LOGAN, UT--(Marketwire - Dec 15, 2011) - Media Lab Inc., premier provider of Photoshop plug-in website creation technologies, announces the release of its new SiteGrinder 3.5 website development plug-in for Photoshop. SiteGrinder 3.5 now writes HTML5 and CSS3 code allowing designers to take advantage of features in the latest browsers and Apple iOS devices like the iPad and iPhone.
The Media Lab SiteGrinder 3 platform is a collection of powerful website development tools that automatically convert Photoshop PSD files into standards-compliant web pages. SiteGrinder 3.5 creates elements such as customized CSS text, web-optimized images, interactive buttons and menus, drop shadows, rounded corners, transparency, CSS animation, image galleries and much more.
In addition to SiteGrinder 3's 60+ hints and already long list of capabilities, Media Lab has added many new features to SiteGrinder 3.5. The new features include:
Support for HTML5.
CSS3 gallery effects.
Pin elements like social media toolbars to browser edges.
Simplified Headers and Footers.
Specify your own CSS classes on layers.
Google Font support for custom CSS typefaces on pages.
Accordions for displaying a lot of information in a small space.
Improved uploading to web hosts.
Image buttons in forms.
New hover and click behaviors.
Smooth scrolling.
Requirements
SiteGinder 3.5
On the PC, SiteGrinder 3.5 is compatible with Windows XP and later, including Windows 7. It requires Photoshop 7 or later including the latest Photoshop CS5, or Photoshop Elements 6, 7, 8 and 9. On the Mac, SiteGrinder 3.5 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 or greater, Photoshop CS3 CS4 or CS5 (Mac OS X 10.4 or later for the Intel-based Mac), or Photoshop Elements 6, 7, 8 and 9. Visit www.medialab.com for complete details and to download your copy of SiteGrinder 3.5.
About Media Lab, Inc.
For over a decade, Logan, Utah-based Media Lab, Inc. has specialized in creating interactive Photoshop tools that make it easy to bring amazing web designs to life. In addition to its flagship product SiteGrinder 3.5, SiteGrinder 3 and SiteGrinder 2, have enjoyed an array of favorable reviews and accolades since it debuted in April 2000 under the the name of Photowebber. Prior to the release of Photowebber, Media Lab's innovative multimedia design tools, PhotoCaster, PSD2FLA, and AlphaMania, were used to create pioneering special effects seen at Disney World's EPCOT Center in Florida, as well as in numerous popular music videos and motion pictures, such as "X-Men 2," "Spiderman 2," "Air Force One," and "Armageddon." For complete information on Media Lab, Inc. and its current products, visit www.medialab.com.
September 15, 2011, 11:47 am
For Immediate Release
Media Lab's releases MacOS Lion version of SiteGrinder 3
SiteGrinder 3 users can now take advantage of Photoshop's new 64bit Flash Player support
Logan, Utah - June 15, 2011 -– Media Lab Inc., premier provider of Photoshop plug-ins that convert PSD files to HTML websites, announces that SiteGrinder 3 for MacOS Lion is now compatible with Photoshop running in 64bit mode. With Adobe's recent beta download release of 64bit Flash player support for Photoshop, SiteGrinder users can now convert Photoshop Website designs to full functioning websites taking full advantage of the enhanced speed and enlarged memory access that 64 bit Photoshop provides. Previous versions of SiteGrinder 3 required users to run Photoshop in 32 bit mode even with 64bit versions of MacOS. The 64bit and 32bit versions are now available from the Media Lab website as a single download of SiteGrinder 3.2.4 or later.
"Since our very first product we have been MacOS developers, so we are overjoyed that Adobe's Flash Player now allows us to fully support Mac users running under 64bit mode,"
said Media Lab President Tom Summerall. "For maximum convenience we made the single installer smart enough to install SiteGrinder for 64bit, for 32bit, or for both, depending on the user's MacOS and Photoshop installations."
The Media Lab SiteGrinder 3 platform is a collection of powerful website development tools that automatically convert Photoshop PSD files into standards compliant web pages. SiteGrinder 3 creates elements such as customized CSS text, web-optimized images, interactive buttons and menus, drop shadows, rounded corners, transparency, CSS animation, image galleries and more. View our PSD to HTML conversion tutorials to learn more about SiteGrinder 3.
Requirements
SiteGrinder 3
On the PC, SiteGrinder 3 is compatible with Windows XP and later, including Windows 7. It requires Photoshop 7 or later including the latest Photoshop CS5, or Photoshop Elements 6, 7, 8 and 9. On the Mac, SiteGrinder 3 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 or greater, Photoshop CS3 CS4 or CS5 (Mac OS X 10.4 or later for the Intel-based Mac), or Photoshop Elements 6, 7, 8 and 9. SiteGrinder 3 is available in 32bit and 64bit versions for both MacOS and Windows. Visit www.medialab.com for complete details and to download your copy of SiteGrinder 3.
About Media Lab, Inc.
For over a decade, Logan, Utah - Based Media Lab, Inc. has specialized in creating interactive Photoshop tools that make it easy to bring amazing web designs to life. In addition to its flagship product SiteGrinder 3 and it predecessor, SiteGrinder 2, have enjoyed an array of favorable reviews and accolades since it debuted in April 2000 under the the name of Photowebber. Prior to the release of Photowebber, Media Lab's innovative multimedia design tools, PhotoCaster, PSD2FLA, and AlphaMania, were used to create pioneering special effects seen at Disney World's EPCOT Center in Florida, as well as in numerous popular music videos and motion pictures, such as "X-Men 2", "Spiderman 2", "Air Force One", and "Armageddon". For complete information on Media Lab, Inc. and its current products, visit www.medialab.com.
August 11, 2011, 3:31 pm
SOURCE: Media Lab, Inc.
August 11, 2011 13:03 ET
For Immediate Release
Media Lab's SiteGrinder 3 Photoshop Plug-In Integrates Easy-to-Use Wazala Web Store
LOGAN, UT--(Marketwire - Aug 11, 2011) - Media Lab Inc., premier provider of Photoshop plug-in website creation technologies, today announces SiteGrinder 3 integration support for the Wazala web store from Boxador. Using its powerful external media importer technology Media Lab makes it easy for users to add a Wazala web store to SiteGrinder 3 generated websites, Facebook fan pages and Wordpress themes.
"Media Lab is continually adding external media integrations to the SiteGrinder 3 Platform making SiteGrinder the most flexible and extensible PSD to HTML platform on the market," said Michael D. Nelson, COO of Media Lab, Inc. "Wazala is a great addition to SiteGrinder 3's extensive list of external media importers, making it easy to add a web store that can be used across any SiteGrinder 3 generated website, Facebook fan page tab or Wordpress theme."
SiteGrinder 3 automatically converts Photoshop PSD files into standards-compliant web for designers and their clients. SiteGrinder 3 creates elements such as customized CSS text, web-optimized images, interactive buttons and menus, drop shadows, rounded corners, transparency, CSS animation, image galleries and more.
Additional external media importers support by SiteGrinder 3
Requirements
SiteGrinder 3
On the PC, SiteGrinder 3 is compatible with Windows XP and later, including Windows 7. It requires Photoshop 7 or later including the latest Photoshop CS5, or Photoshop Elements 6, 7 and 8. On the Mac, SiteGrinder 3 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 or greater, Photoshop CS3, CS4 or CS5 (Mac OS X 10.4 or later for the Intel-based Mac), or Photoshop Elements 6, 7 and 8. Visit www.medialab.com for complete details and to download your copy of SiteGrinder 3.
About Media Lab, Inc.
For over a decade, Logan, Utah-based Media Lab, Inc. has specialized in creating interactive Photoshop tools that make it easy to bring amazing web designs to life. In addition to its flagship product SiteGrinder 3, Media Lab's SiteGrinder 2, has enjoyed an array of favorable reviews and accolades since it debuted in April 2000 under the name of Photowebber. Prior to the release of Photowebber, Media Lab's innovative multimedia design tools, PhotoCaster, PSD2FLA, and AlphaMania, were used to create pioneering special effects seen at Disney World's EPCOT Center in Florida, as well as in numerous popular music videos and motion pictures, such as "X-Men 2," "Spiderman 2," "Air Force One," and "Armageddon." For complete information on Media Lab, Inc. and its current products, visit www.medialab.com.
SOURCE: Media Lab, Inc.
July 21, 2011 15:32 ET For Immediate Release
Media Lab Announces "OpenGraph" Support for Facebook
Photoshop Plug-In SiteGrinder 3 Integrates More Tightly With Facebook
Logan, Utah - July 21, 2011 – Media Lab Inc., premier provider of Photoshop plug-in website creation software, today announces Facebook "Open Graph" support for SiteGrinder 3. OpenGraph is a way for web pages to provide identifying information, such as special description text and administrator information, to Facebook. When connections are made between a Facebook user and your site, such as when a site visitor "likes" a page, the OpenGraph information will display in the Facebook users news feed. Having this data in essence makes any web page part of the Facebook network.
SiteGrinder with Facebook OpenGraph support now provides an easy to use SG3 control for setting OpenGraph information as part of the external media plug system that is part of the SiteGrinder Content Manager. External media importers already exist for web images, Google Word Processor Documents, Google Presentations, HTML pages and snippets, HTML objects and iframes, generic text, Adobe Lightroom galleries, ShowItWeb galleries, Zoomify, Adobe Flash SWFs and FLVs, Quicktime, Microsoft and other video formats, MP3 audio, and PHP includes. Media Lab is constantly expanding this list.
"Media Lab is continually adding new features and functionality to its SiteGrinder 3 Platform to make the Facebook and social media experience more productive," commented Tom Summerall, President of Media Lab, Inc. "With the release of OpenGraph support for Facebook we are making it easier to create amazing Facebook-integrated pages with Photoshop."
The Media Lab SiteGrinder 3 platform automatically converts Photoshop PSD files into standards-compliant pages that will enhance a Facebook user's web experience. SiteGrinder 3 creates elements such as customized CSS text, web-optimized images, interactive buttons and menus, drop shadows, rounded corners, transparency, CSS animation and more.
Additional Facebook Fanpage features using SiteGrinder 3
Requirements
SiteGinder 3
On the PC, SiteGrinder 3 is compatible with Windows XP and later, including Windows 7. It requires Photoshop 7 or later including the latest Photoshop CS5, or Photoshop Elements 6, 7 and 8. On the Mac, SiteGrinder 3 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 or greater, Photoshop CS3 CS4 or CS5 (Mac OS X 10.4 or later for the Intel-based Mac), or Photoshop Elements 6, 7 and 8. Visit www.medialab.com for complete details and to download your copy of SiteGrinder 3.
About Media Lab, Inc.
For over a decade, Logan, Utah-based Media Lab, Inc. has specialized in creating interactive Photoshop tools that make it easy to bring amazing web designs to life. In addition to its flagship product SiteGrinder 3, Media Lab's SiteGrinder 2, has enjoyed an array of favorable reviews and accolades since it debuted in April 2000 under the the name of Photowebber. Prior to the release of Photowebber, Media Lab's innovative multimedia design tools, PhotoCaster, PSD2FLA, and AlphaMania, were used to create pioneering special effects seen at Disney World's EPCOT Center in Florida, as well as in numerous popular music videos and motion pictures, such as "X-Men 2," "Spiderman 2," "Air Force One," and "Armageddon." For complete information on Media Lab, Inc. and its current products, visit www.medialab.com.