Web 2.0 in the Classroom: BaseKit: Helping Photoshop and Designers Be All They Can Be

I love Photoshop. I've come in contact with lots of software, webware and freeware over the years, and Photoshop still is my favorite. I've not yet mastered it after 10 years, but that's why it remains at the top of my list. I use it for so many things, but at work primarily to teach web design. So you can understand my excitement when I ran across a recent Twitter referencing BaseKit and its current beta signup. There seems to be a chasm-ed divide these days between those who design and those who code the designer's ideas into the end result. Perhaps BaseKit will bridge that divide at bit. Click on the image below to see what BaseKit has to offer. Very promising indeed -- an all from within the browser window.

We live in a day and age where we shouldn't have to be super-geeky to put our design ideas into play on the Internet. I'd like to say we've evolved past that...or have we? Check out the following Vimeo video. With a mantra of "Stop coding, start designing - create a website the BaseKit way", how could you not hope for its wild success? Where is it all heading? I think we'll soon have some hyper-combined version of SiteGrinder/Artisteer/BaseKit before we know it -- and it will be revolutionary. It might even make coders want to learn design. ;) Definitely a company to keep an eye on.

BaseKit from BaseKit Team on Vimeo.