Web Developers.....Questions for you!

techdude2007

techdude2007

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Hey Web Developers:

I have worked with FrontPage 2002 and Dreamweaver 8 for some time. I have pretty much mastered the coding part of the Website Development....however I am having problems with the Layout & Design part.

I have heard that Photoshop is a great program for designing the graphics, layout and design of your website? Does anyone agree?

Thanks
 
Photoshop is great, yes.
But look at Adobe Fireworks, it's more of a Vector Image program, so it's will be better for creating buttons, logos... that sort of thing, I think it's great! :D
 
So is Adobe Fireworks, the Photoshop for Web Design?

Can Fireworks be used to design the entire page layout?

Thanks!
 
techdude2007 said:
Hey Web Developers:

I have worked with FrontPage 2002 and Dreamweaver 8 for some time. I have pretty much mastered the coding part of the Website Development....however I am having problems with the Layout & Design part.

I have heard that Photoshop is a great program for designing the graphics, layout and design of your website? Does anyone agree?

Thanks
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Yes, Everyone designs the page with Photoshop and then making layouts and export it. I always do it. You have to use the Slice tool.

techdude2007 said:
So is Adobe Fireworks, the Photoshop for Web Design?

Can Fireworks be used to design the entire page layout?

Thanks!
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yes! Fireworks can even make rollover buttons and some menu stuff.
 
see now i thought dream weaver was adobe's web design program ??
no ?
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Thats what you create the web site in, Fireworks and Flash are what you use to make contents that you add.

For a rollover button and/or link, do you have to utilize flash?
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No, You insert a link within Dreamweaver. You can make the roll-over images in Flash or Fireworks, then Dreamweaver sorts it out for you and they work on your site.
 
Dont forget that Dreamweaver has its own built in Flash Buttons which are easy to use but i use Photoshop not Fireworks, even when making things as simple as buttons, i think Fireworks is just a more basic tool than Photoshop for people who arent that experienced with these programs.

I would suggest not trying to learn Flash if all you are going to do is use it for buttons, just use the Dreamweave PreBuild ones as Flash is a tricky program and would take a while to learn.
 
i think Fireworks is just a more basic tool than Photoshop for people who arent that experienced with these programs.
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You're wrong.
Fireworks is a vector based image program, for making stuff like buttons, banners and logos.

Photoshop, well, what's in it's name, 'Photo', it's more for editing images and such.

Fireworks is better for creating buttons for use on websites and Dreamweaver.
 
I see what you mean, it is easier to use Fireworks for things like that, i just use Photoshop for both myself and dont see Fireworks side anymore.

Photoshop is also been integrated with Dreamweaver aswell now so its just so god damn easy to get it from one program to the other these days i wouldnt dream of using any other programs
 
Dreamweaver for the website design (more so layout) and development. Dreamweaver is not the tool for designing the images and buttons for your website. I have been using buttongenerator.com and cooltext.com but I was thinking about getting Photoshop or Fireworks to do it instead.

Thanks for your help!
 
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