Sitegrinder?

[progressoid]

I posted this elsewhere but thought maybe you guys and gals might have an opinion on this Sitegrinder program. Apparently uses PhotoShop layers to help build a website. Since PhotoShop is a breeze for me, I thought I'd give it a shot.

Any thoughts? Experiences?

http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder/overview.php

[charlie]

1. As could be expected, I guess

This thing spits out terrible markup, judging from the example pages. They're completely non-semantic, stuffed with divs and the occasional paragraph for text and lists for navigation. The CSS doesn't seem to use classes or cascades, instead assigning ids to every element, so the size of the style sheets for much beyond a simple page is going to be huge. Site revisions will be a headache too -- to make changes, you'll have to hunt down selectors for specific elements, instead of fixing them by tag or class. It also uses absolutely positioned elements heavily, so I don't know if you could make a liquid layout if you wanted.

I've seen this often enough before in WYSIWYG editors, the output is essentially CSS hackery. Honestly, I don't see how it could be any other way, creating an editor that made good markup would be a remarkable feat. If creation speed is paramount for you, this might be useful. But if site maintenance and code manageability are any concern, you'd probably do well to pass.