[thelist] what do you use to create code from layout?

[John Corry]

I make my 'look' in illustrator and photoshop and stay in those worlds
throughout client comp phase. Once we have a design/interface we can marry,
I save as a .psd and go to Imageready for rollovers and optimization.

I like IR because it lets me specify that I want valid HTML (lowercase tags
an dattributes) and because I never took the tiem to get comfortable with
the FW interface...I'm sure its killer...I just haven't learned to use it as
quickly as I can IR.

Then I open the ugly HTML produced by IR in Homesite and start messing
around...taking out spacer images, re-doing cells to contain nested tables,
etc. After all that, I pretty much have a template that I can use on the
rest of the pages in the site.

So then, if its something simple that I just want to finish and get paid
for, I go to DW and add all my pretty, formatted content and css...or
(depending on how much I hate DW at the moment...it fluctuates) I just do
that in Homesite.

OF course...any php or javascript gets done in HS, unless its really wild JS
that comes canned in DW as a behavior...then I'll do that there.

sound liek a reasonable work flow?

no wonder I'm pulling out my hair...
jpc

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of ted serbinski
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 4:42 PM
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> Subject: [thelist] what do you use to create code from layout?
>
>
> question everyone.
>
> simply when you design a site and layout in your favorite graphics program
> (say fireworks or photoshop) ... what tools do you use to transform this
> layout into code that you can fix and than tweak?
>
> i thought dreamweaver might be a useful tool, but after trying
> it, it seems
> it is not as useful as originally thought.
>
> thanks
>
> -ted
>
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