Graphic Design Forum

InDesign to Web... is it possible?

firefighter26 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:46:11 GMT

Believe it or not, but up until a week ago our company didn't have a website despite being around since the 60's!

Over the last few months I had been playing around with a really basic site, doing all the design work in InDesign as I just needed mock-ups to convince the bosses that we needed something, anything.

So after a few revisions and whatnot, we finally had something they they liked. A local company that we do a fair bit of printing for also offers web services, so it was decided to contract to them to build our website.

I packaged all the indesign files up, as per my normal routine, and shipped it over to them on DVD. Within 24 hours they had our entire site done. I asked their technical guy why it didn't take very long (their initial estimate was 3-4 days) and he basically said that I did 90% of the work by supplying them with everything they needed.

This intrigued me as to how they were able to take my indesign files and produce a entire website (about 10 pages) from it, in a short period of time.

I've got to do a re-design on my volunteer fire department's site, something I've been putting off because I wasn't sure how to approach it. BUT, if I can do all the mock ups in InDesign, and figure out how to create a website from it, i'd be laughing.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Computer Power Test

Bladez — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:13:37 GMT

Does your computer measure up?

Horizontally centering inline element

CrystalA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:41:06 GMT

Hello. I'm trying to edit the footer of this website: www.dtpss.com
In the footer, I need to horizontally center the Verisign & BBB images.
Here's the code currently in place:

Code:








  

    

    

  

  

    

    

  
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I have tried using the TD table method rather than div and span and that will center the images but then it messes up the gray line and the copyright info (making them only half the width of the page).

Thanks for any tips!

Concave "A"

jffvlhs22 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:55:49 GMT

Hey all,

I was wondering if there are any typefaces that the stems of the "A" are concave (particularly, a mainstream typeface if possible - although I expect this may be very atypical). Here's a very quick Illy throw together just to help illustrate the shape.

The letter needs to be symmetrical as well (making it likely a sans-serif typeface).

Thanks for any input, or probably more likely, information regarding the irregularily and rarity of this.

-J

Attached Images

This is awesome

greeneye — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:46:45 GMT

http://www.wonderhowto.com/wondermen...icity-0113595/

I want one! :D

edit colored boxes

jimking — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:44:19 GMT

I'm correcting a book that has black text on colored boxes created in Indy. The client wants to change the color of the boxes but I can not select those boxes in order to change the color. I can edit the text but not the boxes. All text and colored boxes are within a text box. Any thoughts out there? Thanks

Feet Reading

Bladez — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:44:40 GMT

Just read this and found it pretty interesting. Just thought I'd share with the rest of you:

Why Feet Don't Lie

Thinking back after reading this, I realized that I do a lot of the stuff they talk about. Ask Audi....my feet are always moving....especially when I'm playing video games.

Need logo designed

freelanceconnect.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:10:09 GMT

I need logo for my new business. The name is Dominium Designs. Dominium is actually the latin word for Domain. The business will be on-line retailer of interesting antique furniture and accessories ...

Click here to apply...

Almost Turkey Day Friday!!

Kool — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:53:03 GMT

Happy Friday Everyone.
Have a great weekend!!!

There will be no Friday post next week since it's the day after Thanksgiving here in the states. I will be out of town. :)

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Originally Posted by Roth (Post 711080)

Not so rigid? The whole thing's harder than the inside of a fourteen year olds underpants.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bladez (Post 711503)

Guinness flavoured chicken = Good

Chicken flavoured guinness = Bad

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Originally Posted by Virgo Nightingale (Post 711491)

Don't be sorry about the textspeak. Just stop using it. Please.

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Originally Posted by Yossarian (Post 711255)

Now this might just be because I'm not sophisticated enough to really enjoy a good sheep placenta, but if it were me, I'd probably downplay the sheep association. Even if I had convinced myself that the sheep placenta ingredient was a good thing, I'd still probably not really want to be thinking about sheep or placentas while using it.

That's just me though, and like I said, I'm probably not your target audience.

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Originally Posted by frankster (Post 711605)

At least when it's international you don't get confused between dates. I hate that the US and the UK have different dates for "owner of a previously occupied uterus day".

edit: Or "female custodian of underage people" day seems more appropriate.

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Originally Posted by Mynock (Post 711598)

Get out frankster! In'tl Man Day won't be dictated by a woman.

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Originally Posted by Broacher (Post 710628)

On behalf of all the Canadians, I'd like to apologize for all the apologies in this thread. Henceforth, we'll just barge in, thank you--- YOINK!

Mmm. Good bacon. Canadian, eh?

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Originally Posted by garricks (Post 711392)

This whole day has been a bag full of stupid. Where'd I put that bottle of scotch?

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Originally Posted by tuliptree (Post 711804)

Maybe we girls, in honor of both holidays, should pee standing up at least once today?

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Originally Posted by urstwile (Post 712014)

Pee funnels are actually a hot ticket item at Burning Man. The porto-potties can get kinda nasty sometimes.

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Originally Posted by budafist

Well I ended up eating my suspicious lunch at around 11am It's now almost 2pm and no slippery pants yet.

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Originally Posted by Red Kittie Kat

You mention the cats ... My Ivory will break her neck to race in here and jump up on my lap and meow with me if she hears me start singing. It's hysterical to watch her. She gets right in my face and meows with me. Sometimes she just purrs and drools on me if she doesn't feel like meowing

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Originally Posted by vtwin_gary (Post 571481)

i have seen a sudden flood of threads turning to food instead of boobies,
i am on a mission to flood the treads of GDF with boobies again!

so...before someone brings up food BOOBIES!

*edit*
i just realized i mentioned food before boobies...my plan is flawed, i must rethink this............

the interesting & "well designed" music video thread

greedo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:07:49 GMT

I tend to show a lot of music videos when I teach graphic design - i find that film and GD are extremely closely related and music video is one of the more interesting short-form video mediums out there.

so, i am always on the lookout for interesting, unusual, and generally well-done music videos and i have found that visual designers and artists tend to have the best taste. What have you seen that you like?

A few i saw recently:

Just caught this this AM, directed by Garth Jennings - Vampire Weekend: "Cousins"

Amazing and done all "in camera" so to speak (what and you will see what i mean): SOUR - "Hibi no niero"

Client not paying...

Rebelutionary — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:49 GMT

Hi people..

This is my situation:

Through a mutual friend, I was introduced to a guy that was starting a company. He needed a logo, website, business cards, letterheads made.

We agreed on a price, although no contract was ever made up or signed (I know, big mistake).

Since then, I did the work, but he failed to make payment. I sent him an invoice and i've been chasing him for over 3 months. He keeps giving me poor excuses, tells me abot his personal and finical problems, ignoring some of my emails, and basicially stalls as much as he can. We had agreed that he could pay me in little bits, cos he seemed like a nice guy and a friend of a friend. But he hasnt even given me a penny. I even took the website off the server to show I was serious. He just came out with even more lame excuses.

I told him I now have no option but to make a legal claim via the small claims court, to get the money owed to me. He did at first promise payment within the week, but then stalled some more. He might be thinking my threat to go legal is all talk...

Im filling in the forms now to make a claim, my only fear is that because i didnt get a contract signed I may not get my money. All I have is all the emails we sent to each other...

Is there a likelyhood I will get my money? Any advice?

Thank you.
:(

logo critique for city sim game project

jnbixler — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:41:49 GMT

Hey all, I'm working on a logo for an open source Sim City style game project called Metropolis. I've come up with a basic design I like, but I'm stuck on a few secondary things. I wanted to go for a slightly Art Deco look while still getting the "city" part in there; Here's the basic shape:

My main question is if I should add an "M" to the design, like this:

Beyond that, I'm not sure what to do about the color scheme; so far I'm liking either silver:

or gold:

or maybe even something a little more colorful:

What does everyone think? Thanks for your feedback!

Extracting layers from pdf file.

Patty — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:01:36 GMT

Hello, Everyone;

An ad was passed my way to make changes and resize on account of the designer of the ad hasn't time to make adjustments. My question is, can layers be extracted from a pdf file. This ad is half the size it is suppose to be.

Can anyone direct me?

Thank you for your time,

Bookmarking site logo

yarusskii — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:59:04 GMT

Hi guys, need a bit of crit and feedback on the above logo.

I am developing a bookmark collecting website as my university project.
I though that the tentacle is a good representation of someting that gabs and snatches, and a peeled banana as a representation of quality content.
Do you think the logo works?

Comments on the name and layout are also welcome.

In need of a little cone help

adnewall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:34:50 GMT

I have a degree student exhibition in the next few days.

I have created a 3 foot geodesic dome, in which 5 of the hexagons across the centre are dented in - opposed of outwards.

Within the 5 hexagons will be images and text. But since they are not flat, there is a ~10deg gap in the hexagon to make the shape 3D.

How can I split an image to have the ~10degree gap?

Please help!


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