Re: OT- building a lightwave website

Thanks Jeff, that gives me a new starting point. I'll start with Photoshop
and try and slice up a panel design and then creating a Photoshop gallery.
If all that works a flash video too...crikey...then I'll be motoring.

Opened Go-Live again....it's dead easy apparently.....it's dead easy....it's
dead easy..easy peasy lemon squeezey. I can type a line of text and preview
it.....yes success. I now want to add a photo gallery...errrr.....ok, I now
want to add a video onto the page....errrr. I'm now reading the help file,
click this click that...20 minutes later...I've now generated 4 sub pages of
a main page with an archor file apparently....at this point I'm desperately
loosing the will to live. I eventually ended up creating a webpage with 'my
webpage' at the top and a link that took me to four other blank pages. An
hour well spent...not.

I've just tried Word ( i didn't know that saved html pages).....wow, thats
great for getting started, you can add images and links to videos at least.
My son just told me I can make webpages in Word apparently....thanks son.
Now wheres my grandma's number.



"Jeff" <nomail> wrote in message news:r-qdnbBSZvz2vwHZRVnyjQ@xxxxxxxxxxxx
The way i usualy work is, to start off in photoshop. Just designing away
for a
couple of hours/days/months. All depends on your idea's and skills i
think.
Then use the handy "slice" in Photoshop to slice all elements up so that
photoshop can easily, fully automated, make an html page with
the whole design slided in tables.

You can then erase images in one of the tables and set them as background
image for that particular table, and type some text over it.

Photoshop can also do photo gallery's if i remember correctly. It gives
you an instant design wich you can ofcourse change to your own design
needs.

But honestly i think you just have to start with making a nice design.
Then
figure out how to convert it into a website. That's the way i work
anyway. I'm defenitly not a skilled programmer but everything i need for
designing a website is easily googled. There a tons of good resources,
forums, etc. It just takes some time ....

And Flash is defenitely not only for making cartoony animated stuff for
the web.
The cool thing about flash is that you don't really need any programming
skills
to do the basic stuff wich is needed for making a website. Just import
your
photoshop design and look in the helpfiles how to make a button on top of
it.
That way you can also add video content to your site. And the new
videocodec
in Flash 8 is truly amazing, very small files for very good quality video.
I've used it for my new website.

Well, just my 2 cents ...
Good luck ;)

- Jeff
www.xs4all.nl/~jeff1983



"Farmer" <getoffmyland@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
news:rvCdnbp2AK8wXQfZRVny0A@xxxxxxxxx
This is driving me nuts, help please.

I want to put my work on a website, my website, for promotion, jobs etc.
I've tried several times over the years but always gave up. I started
with Frontpage but found that after you'd typed a heading, anything more
fancy required Frontpage extensions on the server and more money for the
ISP. On line create your own tools are a waste of time, all you end up
with is a heading and an email link. I want a photo's gallery, a video
page and a blog diary thing. So I bought Adobe Creative Suite 2. Now I
know what Photoshop and Illustrator do but I cannot figure out what
Designer, In Design or go Live are all about or why they exist. Nothing
in the manuals or the website actually explains the function of this
software. Ok so I've now sort of figured out that go-live is for
websites but jees is it tough to understand. Then for no explicable
reason the help menu on all my adboe software stopped working, it just
starts to load then nothing. *&@@@****..&%@>*

I then decided to put that lot on the shelf and look for a simple
consumer website creator. I came across www.coffeecup.com which has lots
of peeps going on about 'simple this' and 'easy' the other. I download
the trial but find once again that I can type 'My Website' at the top but
thats about as far as I can get. Anything else requires understanding
HTML. Are you trying to tell me that all those grandpa's on the website
know HTML. THey even have handy help instructions for pasting HTML
javascripts into the code....It just doesn't work for me. I get error on
line this and cant execute the other. Load a template and learn from
that the website suggests....so I do but all the template seems to be is
some fancy photoshop image thats been sliced by some other godforsaken
programme into squares and imported as code that leaves me non the wiser.

Please don't tell me that with all those websites in the world, with all
the software in the world, there isn't an easy way to make reasonably
sophisticated websites without learning type in html coding......please
help....damn this crap has wound me up....I want to give up completely on
computers.





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