Hi, I'm just wonder how you paid web designers create websites? Do you use dreamweaver? Hand code? Photoshop? Also, would this be acceptable way of designing web sites for clients 1)Create website "template" in Photoshop 2)Use Dreamweaver to insert layout div tags. 3)Link the div tags to the images from your photoshop layout 4)Add text/links/images. Thanks and have a wonderful day
Misha Every web designer has their preferred method for developing a website, go with what your best at and more comfortable in, after time you will develop expertise in your field which will improve the quality and time of your sites. Anything will be acceptable if the client likes the final product I found that when i started doing freelance work the majority of my clients wanted the ability to control what informtion goes on the site, meaning a CMS must be in place, now i design all my sites around the one and only glorious wordpress! something you might want to think about. My process is... Mac > Photoshop > BBEdit > CSSEdit > Cyberduck Then the continuation of head-banging through this cycle... BBEdit > CSSEdit > Cyberduck I'm using a mac, BBEdit is a HTML Notepad, CSSEdit is a visual CSS Editor (highly recommend, i mean highly!) and Cyberduck, an FTP Client.
Hmmm I never had a problem with using tables. Css is very powerful though and you can do a lot of neat things with it other than using tables and what not. Back when I was 15, I am 21 now, I used to use invisible tables to set up my sites structures. I don't like hand coding and havent hand coded html or css in a longg time since I started using front page then transferred to dreamweaver. I do hand code my php and mysql of course though. But yeah just do what ever you are comfy with, as long as it looks good then you have nothing to worry about.
1. I design in Photoshop (down to the pixel!), I don't ever start coding until I'm 100% happy with the design. 1.5. If I'm working for a client, I get them to sign off on the design at this stage. 2. Hand code from scratch using Dreamweaver code view, recreating the Photoshop graphics as I go. I use PHP in nearly every site, so I work directly on the server, or on my local home test server. @ misha_val re tables - read this
Nah I am not paid for really anything. My site was started almost a month ago. I've made like $1.00 with google so far lol. I just do what I love to do and if I make money in the future, well everyone would love that. I just have a side business for my web designing which isn't big because it was started a few weeks ago but I did do a site for a waterproofing company a week or so ago and got paid pretty nice. I wish I had more partners with that site so we could all round up design jobs and get them done and get paid.
The way I design websites is just draw up a very simple layout on a piece of paper, like a menu here, a logo here, etc. Then I start making the "divs". And I try to make it look good as I'm building it. Then I look at the overall appearance and see if it looks good and what needs to be changed. Then I just tweak things and see if it looks better.
1) I sit down, mock up my site in a vector app like illustrator or Inkscape, because until I have decided on the final pixel-sizes of the design, I can easily and non-destructively resize the elements and play around with them. I will mockup pages, subsections, and all of the various styles the site will use. When I am ready to export the graphics, I export them out to PNG, and then bring them into a bitmap editor like Photoshop or the GIMP and crop and save the images there with a lot more flexibility, to make sure my files are the smallest and most efficient they can be. 2) I load up a syntax highlighting code editor, I have purchased dreamweaver, but lately I've found the 'Find' feature in Smultron (a free app) to be far more powerful anyway and just end up using that. I hand-code my HTML and CSS from scratch. 3) I load up firefox, with the web-developers toolbar, which is absolutely indispensable, and I check my progress as I go along, every once in a while I check how my site renders in Safari/webkit and Opera just to make sure it's not Firefox-only. 4) When I'm satisfied with my site, I upload it to the FTP server using Cyberduck, another free app for mac. extra: If I were using windows, my software loadout would be: editor: Notepad++, jEdit, Eclipse, Aptana studio graphics: inkscape.org, gimp.org (or adobe creative suite) ftp: filezilla on linux: editor: jEdit, kate, gEdit, anjuta, eclipse, kdevelop graphics: inkscape.org, gimp.org ftp: gFTP on mac: editor: Smultron, jEdit, Eclipse, Aptana, or dreamweaver graphics: inkscape.org, gimp.org or creative suite ftp: cyberduck. Everything in the list above is free, except for Adobe's products. I hope this clears up the process for you!