On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:53:24 GMT, Tacit wrote:
In article <db334c$pb2$>,
Adriaan wrote:
Just wanted to know if someone could help me, i want to know how i can take my design and turn it into a website but the whole she-bang, not just export as a html file
Photoshop is not a Web page editor. It is an image editor. What you’re asking to do is about like asking to use it as a word processor.
Good analogy, but let’s not throw out Photoshop as the perfect tool (together with image-ready) to design the layout and graphics of the entire page, then exporting certain bits and layers to provide the basis of a site.
More help for the OP:
Some bits need further work in Flash, some bits stay as cut graphics and the entire thing needs to be handed over to a web-development tool.
Image-ready will take the photoshop design and allow you to cut it up into slices (based on areas that are to remain graphics, areas that become links or buttons, areas that are to be text) and will actually create the starter html file for you.
This is exactly how monster templates and others do it. I’m not saying it’s easy – it isn’t. Start with photoshop, export with image-ready and finish with Dreamweaver or a good free editor is HTML-Kit.
HTML-Kit has been around since 1999, has hundreds of addons for download, database extensions, spell checker, color widgets, server-side scripting, embedded help for scripting languages and helpers for all aspects of web design. Switching between preview and source is a simple tab click.
For developers who want to mold the kit to their own requirements, full documentation and examples on how to build your own extensions into the development environment (in a number of different languages) are provided.
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ and take a look at the plugins:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/plugins —
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