Is dreamweaver for...?

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mpicardd

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Is dreamweaver CS4 for creating the actual design of a website? or for the code/content part?

If I wanted to create a graphic for the navigation area (ex: a rounded rectangle for the navigation area) could I do that right from Dreamweaver or would I use photoshop and export it to dreamweaver?

If I can do that in dreamweaver, what do I have to do?

I've always created the design in photoshop and exported it to dreamweaver.
 
I believe dreamweaver is the program used to make the website, you can design in it but not to the extent of photoshop. It has been a while since I have used the program but I think adobe wanted it separate like that so they can make more $$$
 
Thanks. Now when I use photoshop to design the website, they are made into images. (.GIF), and when those images load to create the website's design in a browser, they load a few at a time, and not all at once like I want them to. How can I have them load all at the same time? (like other websites yahoo, google, etc).
 
It is for people who cannot code. To be honest, you should look into CMSes when building websites. Way more robust, and once you learn to code you can do pretty much everything you could possibly imagine.

Design and coding are often two separate persons/departments when it comes to web development. However, the ability to do both just makes you that much better.
 
The code is the design, if you're referring to the placement of graphics, frames, background colours and the like... so Dreamweaver is for coding and by extension designing websites.

If you mean designing the graphics that go into the website then no... Dreamweaver just takes existing graphics and places them into the website. Which graphical software you use to design the graphics depends on your personal preference and what kind of graphics these are, but Adobe covers all bases and is the most commonly used. Photoshop for photos and pixel-art, Illustrator for illustrations (the name is no coincidence :) ) and Flash for animations. But you can use anything. GIMP, MS Paint, whatever you like to use. Just as long as you can save in a web-friendly format (jpg, gif, png and swf)
 
tlarkin said:
It is for people who cannot code.
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I strongly disagree, I use DW more for Coding but anyway that's just me. I prefer coding than CMS.

mpicardd said:
Yes it is public. The domain is www.picardmediagroup.com

Any good coding tutorials you recommend? I want to learn specifically how to make a website in PHP, etc.

Thank you!
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Is it just me or is that a heavy graphic you got there ? 300kb gif ?
a bit too big. You should learn slicing. Dreamweaver resources can be found all over Google but if you want good ones go on Lynda.com.
 
CMS is the wave of the future, and yes you code with CMS. CMS takes like 70 hours of custom code work out of the picture. If you know HTML, PHP, and CSS you can take any CMS and turn it into whatever you want and have the CMS under the hood.

I have friends that run their own web development business, as in they all three quit their day jobs and started their own company. They have a few major clients (like major league soccer) and they build all their sites from Drupal.
 
If your server supports PHP codes then only you can do coding in it.

I think your image has to be in the head tag to make sure they load together.
 
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