I see ppl request designer to do up templates which is purely on graphic or like psd format. How is it able to convert those templates for real use into flash or HTML?
What I do with these is slice the image into (jpg) pieces using photoshop. I'll slice the header into one piece and the footer into another. Any white space or backgrounds I make purely html to save on downloading time.
Ic.. what about those ppl who said code template? Does that means that the designer slice those graphic already?
Basically imageready will generate the html when the images are sliced, some people use dreamweaver to do this but i think imageready is fine. Layouts are sliced to reduce load times as well.
Have never seen any system that automatically slices and codes xhtml/ css to an acceptable level. Coding a template (would never use the term myself) is taking the PSD/ PNG file and creating the xhtml/ css files from it. In all honesty, I would tend to want the designer and HTML person to work together on the design (if they arent the same person) as minor changes can make big savings in terms of the ultimate html/ css template file size which of cause helps the site in terms of both bandwidth useage and speed of pages loading which is getting more important again with the increased usage of mobile devices.
I still don't get why people use imageready to slice when you can do it in Photoshop :S Slicing basicly makes tables out of it, making every piece of slice an image. I never slice myself though. What I do is first designing in Photoshop to see everything looks well, then I simply save all images I need then start with the html/css coding.. simple as that.
I slice the images in photoshop > file > save for web > images only [.GIF] Then make 2 new files index.html and basic.css, open up notepad and start coding