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Then I'm a little dubious about that- given that everything appears to be absolutely positioned. Reminds me of the Adobe web design tool before they bought Macromedia (anyone remember the name of it?)

As a mock-up tool, it's great.


re: absolutely positioning, definitely not ideal. We're toying around with different code generation techniques. We feel at this point, that generating layout html isn't really a good idea. So we're focusing on getting the colors, shadows, text, etc out out the tool.

We'd love to know what you might need as far as code generation.


This is not an easy problem (and I think nailing the parts you're focusing on first is a good decision) but if you guys could get the code generation part of the overall page layout problem solved, you'd really have something unique.

I think by far the most time consuming (and frustrating) part of "easy" web design, at least for me, is getting the floats, clears, block vs inline, etc. stuff working perfectly without resorting to absolute positioning or other shortcuts.

If I could quickly throw together a page layout - navbar on top, image on left on main box, text lined up on right, etc. define a few properties (fluid vs fixed width), this element centered, that element indented, etc. and quickly get a working page layout system in place, that could save people hours. I'd pay for that in a heartbeat.

Like I said, I know this isn't an easy problem to solve and I like the idea of getting the per-element / style code generation done first, but do keep this in the back of your minds. Keep it up!


floats, block vs inline and adaptive layouts.. for sure it is not easy but we are working to solve that in http://www.froont.com.


pagemaker?


PageMaker is for book layout, predecessor to InDesign.




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