Blue Sky On Mars

Thoughts on Building Software Products
February 20, 2005

Inspiration: easy diagramming and idea organization

by Kevin Dangoor

Though you’ll see from the website that it is geared toward children, Inspiration is reported by some to be a great tool for anyone who likes to think visually and organize their thoughts with outlines. I haven’t tried it, so I can’t personally recommend it. I wanted to keep a link here, though, because it sounds intriguing.

February 20, 2005

SiteGrinder: Photoshop plugin to create web sites

by Kevin Dangoor

Nearly all people in the design world use Photoshop in some capacity or another. It’s not uncommon for web site designs to begin in Photoshop and then get “cut up” into working web pages. SiteGrinder provides a way to automatically turn a Photoshop design into web pages by using hints that you give in your layer names. Nice idea, but I’d have to try it to know for sure. On the plus side, it does seem to be modern web friendly (XHTML, CSS).