Web advice
Soapoint (8 points) | Wed, 2007-11-28 16:03I am a designer/ printer/ installer of large format graphics. I am in the process of starting my own company with a partner. Typical scenarion, I am trying to teach my self a little web design. I have my site laid out in illustrator, and am using dreamweaver. I can manage getting the images into dreamweaver, however the only way I know how to is by using layers. I can also get them to link around ( working buttons). Eventually I will also be selling some items off of this site.
Is this something that I could manage doing on my own? reasonably?
Any small tips that may prevent me from making some BIG mistakes?
thanks
Soapoint
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First word of advice, don't use layers. :)
Go here for all the info you need: http://www.w3schools.com. Dreamweaver is good to start on, but you'll find you won't need it after a while. The more experience you get the more you will 'hard code' your sites using text editors.
Test your site in IE 6, 7 on a pc and Firefox on mac and pc. Should cover most folks and issues.
Use Firefox Web Developer Tools Addon. Sweet!
Use Photoshop's create slices tool to make your graphic cutting easy as pie. Then all you have to do is create css/layout to hold those images for your web pages.
Learn what include files are. You can templatize your pages so if you need to make a change to the header, you do it to an include file instead of on each individual page you make.
Learn CSS. It will be your FRIEND the larger your site gets.
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Dirt and Rust
thanks alot. I have seen the css (cascade style sheets ?) but have not checked into them very much. need to experiment with slicing in photoshop as well. Have not figured out how to use that tool yet.
will certainly look into the site you suggested.
I appreciate the help
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Photoshop, just use the slice tool in the tool bar and you draw the areas you want to 'slice'. Then you Save For Web and choose Images/Selected or Images/All to have PS save a folder with all slices you make.
More here:
http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/slices.asp
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Powerpoint is not a design application
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Dirt and Rust