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Just a general question to all those into web design really.

What applications do you use for designing/developing your websites and why do you use them?

I've only really messed around with Dreamweaver in combination with Photoshop, I really need to learn about using divs though as opposed to tables.
 
Fireworks - designing the site, as it's very quick and easy

Photoshop - more tricky bitmap editing, I don't find it as good as Fireworks for designing websites though

Dreamweaver - php, html, css, etc. I type all my code into Dreamweaver, I find it's a great tool :) built in FTP, code hints, WYSIWYG section, all great timesavers
 
furnace said:
Fireworks - designing the site, as it's very quick and easy

Photoshop - more tricky bitmap editing, I don't find it as good as Fireworks for designing websites though

Dreamweaver - php, html, css, etc. I type all my code into Dreamweaver, I find it's a great tool :) built in FTP, code hints, WYSIWYG section, all great timesavers
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I'm a serious novice when it comes to web design but I am learning. A question if you don't mind?

I've only really learned be able to position content and images exactly where I want them using the layout mode and layout tables/cells (I think that's what they are called) in Dreamweaver. Can you pretty much do the same with divs? I'm aware it's worth moving from tables and using divs so I need to do some reading, but I just thought i'd say.

How do you achieve getting all your content/images etc in the exact position you want?
 
Wardie said:
Just a general question to all those into web design really.

What applications do you use for designing/developing your websites and why do you use them?

I've only really messed around with Dreamweaver in combination with Photoshop, I really need to learn about using divs though as opposed to tables.
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I use the Adobe CS3 web suite (thanks boss) for pretty much everything

Fireworks for fiddling with the layered PNG's that graphic designers insist on sending me.

Photoshop CS3 for site layouts & Dreamweaver CS3 for the actual site

Speed is of the essence in my job (unfortunately) so I can't be fannying around being an editor nazi in Notepad.
 
Cuchulain said:
Photoshop CS3 for site layouts
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I've got a few video tutorials for photoshop, I haven't watched them all the way through yet though... but I find it really tricky for web design?

For example, in fireworks if you make a shape, then you think "no that needs to be a little smaller" you just resize it, or if you think "no that corner needs to point more" you just drag the corner, but with photoshop being a bitmap-based tool, I find that all these little adjustments just aren't possible without lots of messing about?

@Wardie, have a look at a few CSS tutorials - probably worth starting a new thread if you have questions about CSS :)
 
furnace said:
@Wardie, have a look at a few CSS tutorials - probably worth starting a new thread if you have questions about CSS :)
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I didn't realise I was asking about CSS ha-ha. So divs are related to CSS?

Forgive the noobness, I learn a lot more through asking questions than I do reading.

How much of the actual design do you lot do outside Dreamweaver? For example, i've been desgining exactly how the entire site will look, then slicing the required buttons and images. Generally how it's done or?
 
Yeah that's pretty much how it's done :) You shouldn't use tables to position stuff on your page though - only use tables for showing data, like you would in excel.
 
furnace said:
Yeah that's pretty much how it's done :) You shouldn't use tables to position stuff on your page though - only use tables for showing data, like you would in excel.
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Thanks, I'll get reading up on using divs properly then, I know they are what I should be using. Just the design mode thing in Dreamweaver just makes it so easy to do ha-ha.
 
furnace said:
I've got a few video tutorials for photoshop, I haven't watched them all the way through yet though... but I find it really tricky for web design?

For example, in fireworks if you make a shape, then you think "no that needs to be a little smaller" you just resize it, or if you think "no that corner needs to point more" you just drag the corner, but with photoshop being a bitmap-based tool, I find that all these little adjustments just aren't possible without lots of messing about?
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One of our other designers uses Fireworks for layouts and swears by it, I think it's more habitual that I use PS for them, I've never really got into Fireworks other than converting layered PNG's back to PSD's to open in PS.
 
Any of you guys got any experience/opinions using NVU? I've had it recommended to me for sorting your layout as opposed to using Dreamweaver.
 
Use Dreamweaver, it's better ;)

Try and use the code view as much as you can though! You can use the WYSIWYG (design view) part but if you don't keep an eye on the code you could end up with some weird problems later
 
Photoshop for design and imagery. Designing the site realistically and then optimizing all the imagery involved.

Frontpage 2003 (Code view) for writing the HTML. Could use any decent text editor but I've got in the habit of using frontpage now. Decent syntax highlighting and automatic tag closing does the job for me.

PSPad for the CSS, Javascript and PHP editing. A nice little text editor. Could probably use it for HTML too, but the HTML looked strange written in Courier font, so I don't use it in that. Yes, I'm a fussy *******. :)
 
I know I keep asking questions... but like I said it's how I learn and any responses are appretiated.

Do you generally design for a certain resolution or do you generally produce fluid designs?

What if you are wanting to create quite graphic heavy design? Can you have the tables/divs resize the images to fit? (I'm almost sure i've seen this done before or done it myself but I can't really remember).

Cheers for any help :)
 
I use photoshop for design, Zend Studio for PHP work, visual studio for .Net work and NotePad++ for general html.
 
I use my head for design, Photoshop (yarrr!) for image stuff and skEdit for the HTML/CSS.

But I'm just an amateur.
 
furnace said:
Fireworks - designing the site, as it's very quick and easy

Photoshop - more tricky bitmap editing, I don't find it as good as Fireworks for designing websites though

Dreamweaver - php, html, css, etc. I type all my code into Dreamweaver, I find it's a great tool :) built in FTP, code hints, WYSIWYG section, all great timesavers
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What version of dreamweaver?

Last time I played with it was when div's first become popular... its WYSIWYG z index support was awesome.

EDIT - as an aside... when people say 'photoshop' do they literally mean photoshop or is it like 'googling' on the web being synomous with searching. Reason I ask is I get a a free copy of Illustrator, PSP and Photoshop from work. All three are installed and I think the latter has been run once... PSP is powerful - for most things...
 
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