SiteGrinder 3 now has optimized web hosting through MidPhase

September 1, 2010, 12:00 pm

Media Lab and UK2 Group announce partnership

Photoshop Plug-in SiteGrinder 3 now has optimized web hosting through MidPhase

 

Photoshop World, Las Vegas - September 1, 2010 -– Media Lab, Inc., today announced a partnership with UK2 Group, a world leader in web hosting, providing SiteGrinder customers with an optimized hosting solution for SiteGrinder generated and managed websites.  The partnership will greatly enhance the SiteGrinder 3 user experience providing a complete solution from the initial web design in Photoshop all the way to deployment of the website to the Internet.

 

“We have years of experience, best of breed technology, world-class support and state of the art data centers to bring SiteGrinder 3 users the very best that hosting has to offer" said, Jeff Hunsaker, President/COO of UK2 Group, US Operations."  "Our MidPhase brand hosting integration with SiteGrinder 3 is just one of many opportunities we envision with our Media Lab partnership."

SiteGrinder 3 hosting will be managed by MidPhase, one of UK2 Group's thirteen brands.  

The MidPhase technical support staff can be reached by phone, live chat, or email 24x7. Their top tier data centers feature redundant power sources, multiple network carriers, and data backup services.  With their on-site professional staff and a 99.9% up time guarantee, this type of service will provide hosting peace of mind for SiteGrinder 3 users.

"UK2 Group's international reach, superior support and uptime record was Media Lab's best choice  for providing SiteGrinder 3 designers/developers an optimized hosting solution." said Michael D. Nelson, COO of Media Lab.  "Although SiteGrinder 3 can be used with any hosting service, we felt it was important to develop a close relationship with a flexible hosting partner that would enhance the website deployment and management experience specifically for SiteGrinder 3 users."

SiteGrinder 3 users will receive an additional 6 months free hosting with a 2 year commitment at $6.95 per month.  With a one year commitment at $8.95 per month they will receive an additional 2 months free.

SiteGrinder 3 allows graphic designers, photographers, artists or anyone to easily transform their Photoshop designs into CSS and XHTML standards-compliant websites without writing a single line of code.  For developers who want to improve their work flow, all code generated by SiteGrinder 3 is fully editable in Dreamweaver or any other CSS or HTML editor.

 

Requirements

SiteGinder 3 Compatibility

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.  Websites created using SiteGrinder 3 are compatible with all popular web browsers including the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.  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. Media Lab's SiteGrinder has also 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.

 

About UK2 Group

UK2 Group has been a significant player in the U.K., European and U.S. hosting markets since 1998. UK2 Group provides domain name registration, website hosting and server hosting to many global customers through its large family of hosting brands – UK2.net, MidPhase, 100TB.com, Resell.biz, WingSix, ANHosting, Autica, Supreme Support, Dotable, VPS.Net, WestHost and Virtual Internet. The group is accredited by ICANN and operates its services out of several state of the art, multi-million dollar data centers in the UK and US, and is committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services underpinned with excellent support.  For more information please visit www.uk2group.com. To learn more about the MidPhase brand, please visit www.midphase.com. 

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SiteGrinder 3 Generated Websites Compatible with Apple iPad

July 6, 2010, 8:21 am

 

SiteGrinder 3 Generated Websites Compatible with Apple iPad

Media Lab adds CSS components to Photoshop plug-in

Logan, Utah - July 6, 2010 -– Media Lab Inc., premier provider of Photoshop plug-in website creation technologies, today announced that websites created with the SiteGrinder 3 platform are fully compatible with Apple's new iPad, iPhone and the iPod Touch.

The Media Lab SiteGrinder 3 platform has many features that will enhance the iPad user's web experience such as animated galleries, light box image displays, finger friendly menus, drop shadows, rounded corners, transparency, and expandable columns.  In addition to Flash components, SiteGrinder 3 uses CSS and JavaScript to make SiteGrinder 3 generated websites compatible with the new iPad and other Apple mobile platforms.

"SiteGrinder opened a whole new line for me building websites in addition to my graphic design business.  Media Lab listens to their customers and continually advances their products." said William Garrow, owner of William Garrow Productions. "This is just another example of Media Lab responding quickly to the market and requests from customers to support the iPad and other Apple mobile platforms."

SiteGrinder 3 iPad Features

• Animated CSS image galleries that work on the iPad. 
• Light box display of gallery images.
• Easily embed YouTube videos viewable on the iPad
• Place QuickTime and MPEG movies anywhere on your pages
• Create finger friendly drop down menus
• Supports CSS drop shadows, rounded corners and transparencies
• Two finger scroll to navigate long text in small areas

"We have always taken great care to support multiple hardware platforms and operating systems", said Tom Summerall, Media Lab Co-founder, "It was important for us to move quickly to ensure that SiteGrinder 3 Flash components used to build web pages would also have parallels available without Flash, using CSS and Java script, making SiteGrinder 3 generated websites compatible with the iPad."

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.

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Media Lab and PageLime Announce SiteGrinder 3 Integration

May 5, 2010, 1:56 pm

Media Lab and PageLime Announce SiteGrinder 3 Integration

Partnership to provide easy to use permissions-based CMS for SiteGrinder 3 client websites

Longmont, CO - May 4, 2010 -– Media Lab Inc., premier provider of Photoshop plug-in website creation technologies, today announced an integration partnership with PageLime's permissions-based Content Management System (CMS) to complement its own SiteGrinder 3 Control add-on.

PageLime is a cloud-based CMS which gives website designer/developers an easy method for their clients to manage the content on their websites.  PageLime, like SiteGrinder, requires no programing knowledge at all.  PageLime and SiteGrinder work seamlessly together for a fully integrated solution.  The SiteGrinder 3 Control add-on and the PageLime CMS provide a complete solution for both the designer/developer and the website owner.

"We designed SiteGrinder 3 to work seamlessly with third party products," said Chris Perkins, Media Lab Co-founder and CTO. "PageLime complements SiteGrinder's own CMS by providing designers with an easy to use cloud-based CMS for their clients who require variable levels of access to their websites."

The SiteGrinder 3 Control add-on CMS allows the website designer/developer to quickly change any site content remotely including page additions, text, images and galleries from any web browser, all without returning to Photoshop.  The PageLime CMS provides owners of SiteGrinder 3 generated websites with an easy to use method for changing only those approved items on the website through a permission based system.  See tutorial at NetTuts .

"The SiteGrinder 3 architecture, workflow, and user interface make it a perfect product integration for the PageLime CMS.," said Tom McLeod, CEO, PageLime, Inc. "Integration was simple and straightforward and we look forward to helping the end users of SiteGrinder 3-developed websites simplify the management of their own websites."

SiteGrinder 3 allows graphic designers, photographers, artists or anyone to easily transform their Photoshop designs into CSS and XHTML standards-compliant websites without writing a single line of code.  For developers who want to improve their work flow, all code generated by SiteGrinder 3 is fully editable in Adobe Dreamweaver or any other CSS or HTML editor.

Requirements
PageLime
A web browser, Photoshop and SiteGrinder 3

SiteGinder 3
On the PC, SiteGrinder 3 is compatible with Windows XP and later, including Windows 7. It requires Photoshop 7 or later, or Photoshop Elements 6, 7 and 8.  Mac SiteGrinder 3 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 or greater, Photoshop CS3 or CS4 (Mac OS X 10.4 or later for the Intel-based Mac), 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, Longmont, CO-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.

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MediaLab Releases SiteGrinder 3

March 29, 2010, 12:08 pm

Powerful Website Development Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop 

Adds eCommerce and Content Management to New Platform

 

Media Lab Introduces SiteGrinder 3—next generation web site development platform with over 300 new features and functions

 

Longmont, CO - March 29, 2010 -– Media Lab Inc., premier provider of Photoshop plug-in website creation technologies, today announced SiteGrinder 3, its next generation web site development platform. In addition to over 300 new features, Media Lab SiteGrinder 3 supports two new optional add-ons, Commerce and Control.

The SiteGrinder 3 Commerce add-on builds web stores with a fully-integrated shopping cart from within Photoshop. Users can now easily create online stores with shopping carts from image galleries using simple Photoshop text and art layers.  After publishing their store to the web, users can edit products, pricing, images and descriptions remotely using any web browser.

The SiteGrinder 3 Control add-on enables website content management from any Internet-connected computer through a web browser.  The designer/developer (or client) can quickly change any site content including page additions, text, images and galleries remotely from any web browser, all without returning to Photoshop.

"SiteGrinder 3 is the best website development tool that I have ever used,"  said Charles Hurst, Web Designer.  "Its integration with Photoshop as a plug-in gives me a complete development platform from initial design all the way to a working published website. With the optional Commerce and Control add-ons, and the over 300 new features and functions in SiteGrinder 3, I have complete control over the design, deployment and remote management of my websites."

Graphic designers, photographers, artists or anyone can easily transform their Photoshop designs into CSS and XHTML standards-compliant websites without writing a single line of code.  For developers who want to improve their work flow, all code generated by SiteGrinder 3 is fully editable in Dreamweaver or any other CSS or HTML editor.

"We use SiteGrinder 3 as an integral part of our web application design and work flow." said Chipp Walters, Shafer Walters Group, Inc. "In situations where the client needs a radical design change, the results can be implemented in hours instead of days. We particularly like the new features of SG3, including multiple column resizing and three state button support. Overall, SiteGrinder 3's ROI for our client has been great!"

Key Features

• Generate web graphics without slicing
  
• Produce CSS web text straight from Photoshop (editable in the browser)
  
• Create dynamic pages with interactive buttons and animations
• Set up multi-level menus without programming
• Make custom image portfolios and galleries fast

• Add flash and other multimedia to your pages easily
  
• Create advanced, versatile page layout
  
• Provide forms for email, Google Map and more
  

"SiteGrinder 3 does not merely have more features than SiteGrinder 2, it is the next generation website development platform," said Tom Summerall, co-founder, Media Lab, Inc. "It has a completely new architecture, workflow, and user interface.  SiteGrinder 3's new features and functionality radically improve the design experience and workflow making it easier than ever to design and manage the ultimate website."

Pricing and Availability

SiteGrinder 3 will be released and generally available starting March 29, 2010, following Photoshop World Orlando.

Introductory Pricing is currently available.

 

Suggested retail price for SiteGrinder 3 Web Suite is $799.   SiteGrinder 3 is $399.00, Control add-on $199.00 and Commerce* add-on $199 if purchased separately. For more information please visit the SiteGrinder 3 Store.

Requirements

On the PC, SiteGrinder 3 is compatible with Windows XP and later, including Windows 7. It requires Photoshop 7 or later, or Photoshop Elements 6, 7 and 8.  SiteGrinder 3 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 or greater, Photoshop CS3 or CS4 (Mac OS X 10.4 or later for the Intel-based Mac), 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, Longmont, CO-based Media Lab, Inc. has specialized in creating interactive Photoshop tools that make it easy to bring amazing Web designs to life.  Media Lab's award-winning website creation tool, 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.

*SG3 Commerce requires a subscription from FoxyCart.

press@medialab.com

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