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Photoshop for web design???
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GoLive is Adobe's, very expensive pro type web design program. I have it but prefer Dreamweaver. Photoshop is defiitely not web page design app. It's an image editor that's bundled with ImageReady for some web animation. The combe of GoLive and Photoshop will cost quite a few dollars - that you might not find worthwhile unless you're getting paid regularly for this stuff.
Photoshop Elements will do image editing/saving for web that will satisfy 99% of most people's needs - at a huge savings in cost.
If you're not used ot doing web pages, and just want to learn some, you can download Mozilla (the old Netscape) for moxilla.org and use the free web page layout app that's included. If you're on Windows and need a basic web pagelayout app, MS Frontpage standard will certainly get the job done.
Photoshop Elements will do image editing/saving for web that will satisfy 99% of most people's needs - at a huge savings in cost.
If you're not used ot doing web pages, and just want to learn some, you can download Mozilla (the old Netscape) for moxilla.org and use the free web page layout app that's included. If you're on Windows and need a basic web pagelayout app, MS Frontpage standard will certainly get the job done.
Photoshop Elements is crap (trust me business graphics is my major) its not that much more for the full thing especialy if you get an older version like photoshop 7 its not missing a whole lot from cs and the full thing come with image ready which can do your web stuff i.e-rollovers, animations, minimal pagelayout,and links. it is definately worth it especialy since you can create .html and .gif with imageready and you can do other things with it unlike dreamweaver which is strictly for web stuff
Quite a lot depends on what you mean by "defign".
Even more depends of exactly what you want, or need, to do. Plus your knowledge level, and willingness to learn.
Do you want to know how to create web pages. Learn the bottom line, and use Notepad or any other text editor. The botton line here is that (unless you are going use ASP, or other advanced stuff) it is ALL HTML.
Dreamweaver puts an excellent face on - it is very good for those you want to pretend they know what is happening with web pages. However, I have looked at it actual crap that has to be parsed - sorry, while not as ridiculously bad a DrontPage...it is still bad.
FrontPage is much much worse. Terrible. Again, if you never look at what it is actually doing (and don't care) then, sure go ahead, but what it does behind the scenes Mircrosoft should be ashamed of. It is bloated code at the height of craziness.
Photoshop and ImageReady are great for creating images. Unless you are going to create web pages consisting of ONE sliced up graphic after another, they are not sufficient.
Do you mean a editor, for the TEXTUAL aspect of writing web page content. Then that is a different question.
GoLive? Whew, what can I say? MORE than you will ever likely to need, huge learning curve, and yes, it certainly can do "design".
However, design is a concept, and comes from the space between your ears. You can have, and play with all the software in the world, but if that space churns out poor design...the software is not going to help.
Photoshop - for design? Nah.
Gerry
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Even more depends of exactly what you want, or need, to do. Plus your knowledge level, and willingness to learn.
Do you want to know how to create web pages. Learn the bottom line, and use Notepad or any other text editor. The botton line here is that (unless you are going use ASP, or other advanced stuff) it is ALL HTML.
Dreamweaver puts an excellent face on - it is very good for those you want to pretend they know what is happening with web pages. However, I have looked at it actual crap that has to be parsed - sorry, while not as ridiculously bad a DrontPage...it is still bad.
FrontPage is much much worse. Terrible. Again, if you never look at what it is actually doing (and don't care) then, sure go ahead, but what it does behind the scenes Mircrosoft should be ashamed of. It is bloated code at the height of craziness.
Photoshop and ImageReady are great for creating images. Unless you are going to create web pages consisting of ONE sliced up graphic after another, they are not sufficient.
Do you mean a editor, for the TEXTUAL aspect of writing web page content. Then that is a different question.
GoLive? Whew, what can I say? MORE than you will ever likely to need, huge learning curve, and yes, it certainly can do "design".
However, design is a concept, and comes from the space between your ears. You can have, and play with all the software in the world, but if that space churns out poor design...the software is not going to help.
Photoshop - for design? Nah.
Gerry
See my Paintings and Sculpture
Web design is about alot more than the graphics used on a page.
You can create graphics with Photoshop and use them on a web page. You can even make an entire page as a graphic and "slice" it up, then have ImageReady export HTML that reassembles all the slices.
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You can create graphics with Photoshop and use them on a web page. You can even make an entire page as a graphic and "slice" it up, then have ImageReady export HTML that reassembles all the slices.
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I have found that designing web graphics with Photoshop is great. GoLive! is also very good, it has more options that you'd need, but creating sites is very simple with a lot of options.
The pair of Photoshop & GoLive! is great. I also have a firend that uses Photoshop and Dreamweaver and has also been able to create nice web sites.
I think the HTML editor isn't to big a problem (except Frontpage which is very bad), but the graphic software must meet your requirements.
The pair of Photoshop & GoLive! is great. I also have a firend that uses Photoshop and Dreamweaver and has also been able to create nice web sites.
I think the HTML editor isn't to big a problem (except Frontpage which is very bad), but the graphic software must meet your requirements.
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