produce websites with image ready or fireworks?

[olcvisual]

Has anyone tried to produce an entire website with image ready or fireworks? I know dreamweaver and golive are better for website production but, despite layers and movable boxes, it's easier to move things in the image editing applications.

[3howards]

website production is a 2-part process: 1) web design and 2) web development.

web design, designing the graphic user interface (gui), is created in apps like photoshop or fireworks. imageready, as well as fireworks serve as image compression tools to minimize file sizes and also used to create slices.

web development, html setup and programming, is done with dreamweaver and golive. some programmers use notepad, strictly. but these guys focus more on the programming issues, like valid html, css, javascript, and so on. css is used for design purposes as well and it doesn't require heavy graphics use or manipulation commonly done in photoshop.

my recommendation, if you are using photoshop or fireworks, make sure your design and layout is finalized before you begin the html setup. it saves you time in the long run. once the design is finished, you can import it into imageready (if using photoshop) and slice and compress there. fireworks has inherent compression tools, but i've never used them so i can't help you with that. once the slices are saved open up a new html doc in dreamweaver and setup your layout with html. i highly recommend inputting all of the cell sizes before placing images. also a timesaving technique.

[olcvisual]

3howards said...
website production is a 2-part process: 1) web design and 2) web development.

my recommendation, if you are using photoshop or fireworks, make sure your design and layout is finalized before you begin the html setup. it saves you time in the long run. once the design is finished, you can import it into imageready (if using photoshop) and slice and compress there. fireworks has inherent compression tools, but i've never used them so i can't help you with that. once the slices are saved open up a new html doc in dreamweaver and setup your layout with html. i highly recommend inputting all of the cell sizes before placing images. also a timesaving technique.

That's what I've done in the past. My main problem with web design is none of the current apps (dreamweaver & golive) are the web design/production equivalent of Quark. Using layers in Dreamweaver and converting them into tables works fairly well but programmers dont' like that.