Best way to produce web pages

[ian]

Essential Tools = Photoshop & Decent Text Editor IMO

Photoshop is used for creating basic design - the "save for web" function is a God send, will automatically generate a basic layout for you from your graphics, nice clean code too with the choice of tables or CSS for layout - saves hours compared to doing it manually. Getting the full packages isn't necessary, PS Elements gives you all the functionality you need.

I was always a hardcore "code only evangelist", but having started maintaining a large university website, I've really seen the advantage to having a program like Dreamweaver, not only for WYSIWYG design, but mainly for it's superb template engine and site management tools. However, for smaller sites it's really not necessary.

Macromedia Contribute is also a great tool for allowing clients to update their own site without needing to know any HTML.

[ubiqe]

Read some stuff about html and css at www.w3schools.com , for example.

Great tutorials for beginers. Certainly a place to start.
Then, when you get what it's all about, you could get yourself some WYSIWYG editor just to see what it CAN'T do. :P And further:

Essential Tools = Photoshop & Decent Text Editor IMO

Photoshop with ImageReady. (you can get the trial version on www.adobe.com ) Didn't know it was so great until I tried. But still, it's good to be able to look into the code created by IR (or any other program) and change whatever you don't like. So head to www.w3schools.com

And, if you really would like to use Photoshop there is one slight problem - you need a goog machine, with looooads of RAM.

[BeatMonkey]

I agree, definitely lean the code and get a good graphics editor. i use notepad/UltraEdit and phtoshop/image ready

[funct division]

Re:: Best way to produce web pages

great stuff. thanks to all!

[diomark]

Dreamweaver, imageready, html and css knowledge, and fireworks.
-mark

[element86]

what about Adobe Premiere, Golive, ColdFusion and Fireworks. Anyone tried any of those?

[ian]

what about Adobe Premiere,

For web design?!

[mingus51]

So what's the thoughts on .php?

Seeing a lot of those sites popping up

Fad or revolution?

Can you make those types of sites in GoLive, Dreamweaver, etc?

[ian]

I know Dreamweaver has support for PHP, but I've never used it for that. I've done some PHP sites, I just use PHPedit - a text editor designed for PHP.

I couldn't compare it to any other Server Side language, cos it's the only one I've used, but it seems pretty solid.

[element86]

easy way = do something ugly but fast in dreamweaver (visual mode)
best way = learn some html and css (google for newbie tutorials) and then code it up on any text program

what is css? i have looked up on the internet. is this it?

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci211749,00.html

if so, i dont understand much. is it a type of code? sorry for stupidness...

[element86]

what about Adobe Premiere,

For web design?!

shit i confused.

but anyway, what about Golive and Coldfusion?Anyone used them? Whats the difference between those and Dreamweaver?

[mario belter]

easy way = do something ugly but fast in dreamweaver (visual mode)
best way = learn some html and css (google for newbie tutorials) and then code it up on any text program

what is css? i have looked up on the internet. is this it?

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci211749,00.html

if so, i dont understand much. is it a type of code? sorry for stupidness...

the page you've found there is right so far.
in short it's just one piece of data in which is for example defined, what font color, font size, font type, background color, etc you use on your page.

it is just faster than write the code for all that on every page again and again.
so, you'll just have to define it once.
:wink:

damn, my english sucks

[element86]

easy way = do something ugly but fast in dreamweaver (visual mode)
best way = learn some html and css (google for newbie tutorials) and then code it up on any text program

what is css? i have looked up on the internet. is this it?

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci211749,00.html

if so, i dont understand much. is it a type of code? sorry for stupidness...

the page you've found there is right so far.
in short it's just one piece of data in which is for example defined, what font color, font size, font type, background color, etc you use on your page.

it is just faster than write the code for all that on every page again and again.
so, you'll just have to define it once.
:wink:

damn, my english sucks

haha, thanks a lot for the explanation

[element86]

what about Adobe Premiere,

For web design?!

shit i confused.

but anyway, what about Golive and Coldfusion?Anyone used them? Whats the difference between those and Dreamweaver?

anyone know this?

[mingus51]

GoLive is made by Adobe
Dreamweaver is made by Macromedia...

They both do the same stuff, but in different ways.

If you are really comfortable with Photoshop and InDesigne, GoLive will make more sense to you...

If not, Dreamweaver may appear more intuitive.