ASP.NET Discussion Boards

I am developing many small web sites. Could you please recommend me an application that could speed up my work. Ideal would be if it could take PSD file and produce ASPX files as output.

I know this is very complex issue and I could loose generality using it. But I am asking for an application that could speed up my work even a bit.

Thank you in advance

Macromedia's Fireworks came the closet back in 2003, the new edition may as well. It allowed you to make slices using the slice tool, so you can take a firework file, and slice it up into pieces, and then export the pieces as html.

I did some searching, and several companies claim they can do it.

In the long run, a competent programmer can translate a page mockup into an HTML encoded page by hand in a short amount of time.

In the history of web pages, it looked like many companies like Microsoft was going to phase out web programmers or designers by allowing programs such as word, excel, and in-design to export HTML for web sites. But over the course of time, even those programs were not able to step down lower enough for the common man to build a web site.

Perhaps you will be the one to write that program, making you rich and famous.

Thank you very much for response.

Fireworks outputs a png file. So in my opinion it is rather helpful for graphic designers. Photoshop is large-caliber gun, while Fireworks can speed up your time over Photoshop in small projects.

But is still outputs png, so it doesn't speed up developer's work. Am I correct?

It saves project files as png, but outputs as whatever you choose, jpeg, png or gif

You can download a 30 day trial and check it out. I really like the program, but I don't want to spend $200 dollars on it.

The output is kind of crazy, it generates html and images slices into a folder, and you have to piece it together again I think. I haven't used it in 6 years.