Photoshop for the Web

There are various ways of addressing this. One is to, in your HTML editor, assign that image sans text as a TD background and type the text in the TD cell. Alternately, my favorite method is to use PHP to create new images on the fly with the text embedded over the image, but this usually requires someone with real web programming knowledge of PHP.

"BenignVanilla" wrote in message

I recently purchased a web site template from templatemonster.com to see how well they can be adapted for a site. I really like the idea of using Photoshop to edit a site template. It makes prototyping much easier. What I have not learned, yes I am a newb, is the best way to take the final look in Photoshop and go to HTML.

I know that Photoshop has the ability to save the page for the web, but often I want to change some of the text to text in the site, and not as a graphic of text.

Has anyone dealt with this issue? are you willing to help a newb out with some pointers or a link or two?

BV
www.time2conserve.com

"BenignVanilla" wrote in
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I recently purchased a web site template from templatemonster.com to see how well they can be adapted for a site. I really like the idea of using Photoshop to edit a site template. It makes prototyping much easier. What I have not learned, yes I am a newb, is the best way to take the final look in Photoshop and go to HTML.

I know that Photoshop has the ability to save the page for the web, but often I want to change some of the text to text in the site, and not as a graphic of text.

Has anyone dealt with this issue? are you willing to help a newb out with some pointers or a link or two?

BV
www.time2conserve.com

Yes I have used photoshop to build an entire site, if you are new to photoshop I would not recomend it unless you intend to make minimum changes to the template and don’t plan on many regular updates. Why? because if you make a lot of changes over a long period of time then find you have missed a backup somewhere you can find yourself in a situation that’s very difficult to recover from.
I’m expert rated in photoshop and work in web design.

Also the pages are slow to load (on 56k modems) as they are so ‘heavy’ in graphics

A much beter method for newbys is standard html and use photoshop when you need graphics, easier to learn too.

However if your going ahead you need a very good understanding of how layers & slices work in Photoshop and how html tables and rollovers work and the key word here is MAKE BACKUPS! both PS & you html

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"Kingdom" wrote in message

Yes I have used photoshop to build an entire site, if you are new to photoshop I would not recomend it unless you intend to make minimum changes to the template and don’t plan on many regular updates.

The goal is to use the template mostly as is, with just content changes to meet our needs. We just don’t want our entire
site to be nothing but graphics. We want real textual content.

Also the pages are slow to load (on 56k modems) as they are so ‘heavy’ in graphics

Our intent is not to have a site that is all graphically laid out. We just want to use PS for the design, and then cut it up, using the graphics where necessary, and text where necessary.

A much beter method for newbys is standard html and use photoshop when you need graphics, easier to learn too.

I am established in HTML dev, just new to PS. So I am not a newb…not a total one anyway. 🙂

BV