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I'm not quite sure why I had to upload an image. I took a screenshot of this page and uploaded it, but it seems as though if I was given a blank page I could have designed the same layout.

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Overall, the idea is to automatically turn a mockup of a page into HTML. This is predicated on the user having a picture of the page they want, whether it be a photoshop drawn file or by hand.

In this version, we are outputting floating CSS (with padding, margins, etc) & intelligently named divs, which is intended to save web devs time on getting all that together by hand.

I see the goal, but why is an image required to use the app?

Oh, I see what you are getting at. You are right - an image is unnecessary currently, but we have features implemented that do image analysis that will be available in our next release.

I think that even with image related features, an option to just draw divs on a blank page would be welcome and popular.

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