I was wondering if I could design a webpage in Photoshop, and then just slice it up and put it back together in Dreamweaver to make a "live" website?
I mean just basically make a picture of what I want the Web page to look like in Photoshop or do I have to design it a certain way?
Because I see templates all over the place but I never liked any of them ......I would rather make it look the way I want but I don't know the first thing about creating "templates" exactly, I can make a website size page that looks like I want it to look if it was a real website.
I thought maybe I could just slice it up after designing it and then it really could be a webpage?
That is how 90% of templates are created, they start as a PS graphic that is then sliced up.
ImageReady is gone now and do not worry, the replacement is the much better Fireworks, it makes a breeze to slice graphics and create rollover states where needed and dreamweaver will support fireworks files natively.
These are of course all Adobe programs.
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yes u can design a webpage in PS, but i think u should know that if don't lighten the webpage through html code in dreamweaver or similar prog ie replacing monotone colored slices/images with color code u will just end up having an image which is cut into parts. if u have any questions u can post them
it depends on what you need . for a simple static site a sliced photoshop layout might be an easy way.
but i don't like the resulting html code because you get a table based layout. i think tables should be used for presenting data, not to put sliced pieces of images together again.
if you are really interested in web design learn CSS. seperate the layout from the content. that is what a template is good for.
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I was wondering if I could design a webpage in Photoshop, and then just slice it up and put it back together in Dreamweaver to make a "live" website?
Agon helped me a lot when I had some web designing woes. . .Really just get some Lynda.com for starters on Photoshop, flash, dreamweaver, and whatever else you may want to use.
For Adobe there are a lot of new built in features that allow you to make a real nice website with not that much of a learning curve.
I mean since the website is for you and not a client you have some time to put into learning these apps. I promise you will not regret it, also it will make life so much more easier in the future as well. Hope this helps^^
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yes its possible, very common actually imho.. photoshop, fireworks, ulead and others are just a tool, choose the one u familiar with, its all about ur design taste i think :)
That's what I like to do sometimes. If you're worried about not being able to piece it back together once you slice it you also have the option to save it as a web page and it creates an html file for you along with a folder for the images. Once you open it in Dreamweaver you can edit the html, css, etc. in whatever way you prefer.
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It depends on what kind of website you will design. If it is a site that will be form mostly by bitmap images you'll use photoshop, but if it's a site that will be vector based, like most flash sites, you will design in Illustrator and Flash. Of course there are flash sites that use a lot of bitmap images, so you'll have to use photoshop as well.
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