Product Features - Site Studio 6 Home

Site Studio Home is an award-winning user-friendly software for creating professional web sites with no html skills required.

You can easily update your web site and keep it up-to-date. Site Studio has built-in functions to make it functional and easy to navigate. With Site Studio you are also in control of the appearance and design of your web site.

Below you will find some of Site Studio's exciting features.

Concept Templates

Use concept templates to get started. Concept templates can be used as a basis for your own design (or start from a blank project if you would like create your own layout from scratch). There is no limitation on how the graphical design of your web site will look like (as in many template driven applications).

Import Images

Site Studio offers functionality to optimize images for the web. Usually when importing images from a digital camera they are too large to be placed on a web page. Site Studio can automatically resize images, which makes it easy to import images in batches and to create image galleries.

 

WYSIWYG Editing

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing is used when updating the web site. It's as easy as using a familiar word processing tool like Microsoft Word. When editing your web site, the changes you make will be visible right away.

Automatic Menus

Menus that are updated automatically when documents are added, deleted or changed. Therefore, there is no need to update menus on individual pages. Even graphical menus (which use images) are updated automatically. Site Studio creates necessary images on the fly.

Flash Movies

Flash movies have native support in Site Studio. Inserting a flash movie is as easy as inserting an image.

Actions (hyperlinks)

Actions suchs as hyperlinks are used to navigate to external or internal web pages. Actions also have “smart” links such as linking to the previous and next document. Links can also be made to documents and other files within the project.

Document Properties

Each document has a document body, i.e. its content. Additionally a document has several properties, such as the document title, date of creation and when last modified, primary colors, associated resource folders etc. These properties are then used together with a layout and its components to create a unique web page.

Graphical Rendering Engine Images (GRE Images)

Site Studio has a graphical rendering engine which assembles images on the fly. These are called GRE Images. GRE Images are built dynamically using blueprints called GRE Styles. A GRE Style is a description on how a GRE image should be assembled. For example, it contains information on what background color to use, how text should be applied and formatted, whether symbols should be blended onto the image etc. This powerful feature makes it possible to use graphical menus and labels.

Resource Management

All external files, including images, are stored as project resources. When images are either imported or pasted they will be copied into the project resources. Resources are organized using resource folders which is very useful, especially as the amount of resources used in the project grow in number.

Styles

A style is a description on how a paragraph should be formatted. The built-in styles are Heading 1 to 6 and Normal.

Using styles makes it easy to maintain a consistent design throughout the web site.

Upload (one-click smart update)

Site Studio offers a one-click solution for deploying (uploading) the web site to the final server. Site Studio can either deploy to a file server on the local network or to an ftp-server on the Internet. Site Studio uses a smart synchronization mechanism which keeps track of which files are updated. This minimizes the bandwidth needed for uploading.

XHTML

Site Studio produces web pages conforming to the XHTML 1.0 strict definition.

XHTML is the successor of HTML. It is based on XML and describes the content instead of describing how the content should be displayed. Since XHTML is based on XML, the syntax of XHTML is the same as the one used for XML.

Read more about XHTML at the web site of The World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org