Re: OT- building a lightwave website

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



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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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