Using PhotoShop or Illustrator to make web sites

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barrywomb
Nov 12, 2003
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How many of you use the slice tools in PS and Illustrator to create your web sites? I don’t mean taking a graphic and using guides, then cutting those images on the guides, but actually using the slice tool then exporting as an html page?

I’ve been a web designer for years and I’ve always stayed away from that functionality because it seemed to not do a very good job. however, I may have just not known exactly how to do it.

How many of you do this and have been successful with it?
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nospam
Nov 13, 2003
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(barry womb) wrote:

How many of you use the slice tools in PS and Illustrator to create your web sites? I don’t mean taking a graphic and using guides, then cutting those images on the guides, but actually using the slice tool then exporting as an html page?

Well Imageready comes with photoshop, and I use it for slicing up photos, and I save the HTML to past into web pages. Imageready’s slice feature is fast and easier for my purposes. Here’s a stupid, offbeat example. Don’t put your cursor over her butt. http://wind.winona.edu/~stafford/sh (family rated)
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barrywomb
Nov 13, 2003
Right, I’m aware of that, but you don’t use it to actually spit out the HTML for your pages do ya?
I’ve been looking at some "Total Training" DVDs on Illustrator and they make it sound like this is a really good way to do it. Seems like the pages would be large in memory size, plus, ImageReady (and illustrator) tend to want to make tables in funny areas of the cutup project. Say you "slice" some sections of your graphic layout of a web page, then you have ImageReady spit out the HTML- it makes some really funny table cells.

Just my experience and I was hoping others here would be able to share their experiences and opinions on if they like and use this feature of Illustrator or ImageReady.

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In article ,
(barry womb) wrote:

How many of you use the slice tools in PS and Illustrator to create your web sites? I don’t mean taking a graphic and using guides, then cutting those images on the guides, but actually using the slice tool then exporting as an html page?

Well Imageready comes with photoshop, and I use it for slicing up photos, and I save the HTML to past into web pages. Imageready’s slice feature is fast and easier for my purposes. Here’s a stupid, offbeat example. Don’t put your cursor over her butt. http://wind.winona.edu/~stafford/sh (family rated)
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lkrz
Nov 13, 2003
Just my experience and I was hoping others here would be able to share their experiences and opinions on if they like and use this feature of Illustrator or ImageReady.

Like anything else, it works best if you know what you’re doing. ImageReady will produce code for maps, slicing large images, producing rollovers, optimizing compression, etc. and I use it for that. However, I always sort the code out in HomeSite before putting it on the web. Without that, you end up with tables that fall apart in a lot of situations, type that runs over photos in some browsers and a host of other problems.

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JJS
Nov 13, 2003
"barry womb" wrote in message
Right, I’m aware of that, but you don’t use it to actually spit out the HTML for your pages do ya?

As I wrote, I will copy and paste the code into the proper part of the page.
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tacitr
Nov 13, 2003
How many of you use the slice tools in PS and Illustrator to create your web sites?

I do.

I used to do it the old-fashioned way, by hand, because i tend by nature to distrust any "automatic" gizmos and widgits. But I now o it in Photoshop/ImageReady, because they produce excellent results much more quickly than what I can do by hand. That makes me more productive, which means I make more money.

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