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  • 11-06-2009 10:28pm
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    pauro 76
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭


    Hi, currently training up in Dreamweaver, but finding it a bit fiddly as I'm more used to Illustrator/Photoshop. Is setting up a template in Photoshop/Illustrator and slicing images seen as acceptable in web design?


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    p
    Registered Users Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭p


    pauro 76 wrote: »
    Hi, currently training up in Dreamweaver, but finding it a bit fiddly as I'm more used to Illustrator/Photoshop. Is setting up a template in Photoshop/Illustrator and slicing images seen as acceptable in web design?
    For beginners & amateurs yes, for professionals no.

    Coming from Illustrator or Photoshop, Dreamweaver will not be easy to grasp since you're no longer designing for a fixed, static medium such as an A4 page. It's also very hard to use Dreamweaer unless you understand HTML, because otherwise conventions, rules and behaviours are all very confusing. If you want to get into web stuff in a more professional capacity, then I'd recommend buying 'Heads First XHTML & CSS' it's a great book.


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    Deliverance
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Deliverance


    pauro 76 wrote: »
    Hi, currently training up in Dreamweaver, but finding it a bit fiddly as I'm more used to Illustrator/Photoshop. Is setting up a template in Photoshop/Illustrator and slicing images seen as acceptable in web design?
    Totally fine once you understand the basics of HTML and image sizes for downloading over an internet connection. I.e. You could slice up a whole page in photoshop and simply make it into a webpage for dreamweaver easily enough and it will look fine.

    But the downside is the time it takes for a user to open your page in their browser depending on internet connection speed / provider. A page that is mostly made up of sliced images takes 'forever' to open because images take a while to load, and most likely will not be opened or viewed by the 'target audience' that the page or site should have been 'designed' for.

    That's just a basic reply. Dreamweaver is there to speed up your work a lot, but it will drive you nuts unless you first understand the basics of the parts that put a well designed page together.


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    zaratustra
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    there is lots of tutorials . try this one: http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/


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