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Subject: Photoshop & Dreamweaver integration question

MINTY1974 opened this issue on Aug 13, 2006 · 16 posts
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MINTY1974 ( ) posted Sun, 13 August 2006 at 1:04 PM · edited Thu, 25 July 2024 at 1:00 PM

Hi all,  I have been asked to create and design a website for someone and I have a few questions that you maybe able to answer for me here.  I am toying with the idea of buying Dreamweaver 8 to create the site but, as a newbie to website creation, I was wondering how easy it is to create a template in Photoshop and slice it up for use in Dreamweaver? Has anyone here ever used Photoshop to design a site and then used Dreamweaver to create it? If so, how easy was it to do? I know this is all a bit vague but any help would be great at this stage. Cheers and thanks for any advice in advance.  Minty.

bobbystahr ( ) posted Sun, 13 August 2006 at 1:17 PM

Attached Link: http://www.adobe.com/products/golive/

          Adobe has an app called GoLive that may allow closer integration if that's what you're after, and I've been told[don't build pages myself]that it's dead easy to use.

 

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bobbystahr ( ) posted Sun, 13 August 2006 at 1:21 PM

Attached Link: http://www.studica.com/Adobe/

And additionally, it seems to be available here at a much reduced price

Adobe GoLive CS2
  Adobe GoLive CS2 software lets you unlock the power of CSS with intuitive visual tools such as prebuilt CSS objects that you can drag and drop to build sophisticated sites. Jump-start your designs by easily converting Adobe InDesign® layouts into Web pages. Or, design Web and mobile content in an advanced, standards-based coding environment.
 
  Mac CD - Free Shipping  $97.95  
  Win CD - Free Shipping  $97.95  
 

 

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tantarus ( ) posted Sun, 13 August 2006 at 2:08 PM

Image Ready have all the tools you need for creating optimized graphic. I dont know almost nothing about webdesign, but I know that Dreamweaver is creating allot of junk unnecessary code by default. So you have to know how to clean the mess :)
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MINTY1974 ( ) posted Sun, 13 August 2006 at 2:09 PM

Thanks for taking the time to reply and for the advice. Can GoLive CS2 be used in conjunction with older versions of Photoshop? Or just CS2?

bobbystahr ( ) posted Sun, 13 August 2006 at 2:19 PM

I'd check out the site but it is likely possible

 

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dreamer101 ( ) posted Sun, 13 August 2006 at 6:58 PM

I would definitely use Dreamweaver over GoLive. GoLive is way down near bottom of my list of html editors. GoLive bloats the code a lot. Photoshop (no matter the version) produces the html and folder of images (slices) which can be opened with any html/text editor. If you are good at coding from scratch then notepad is all you really need.

SWAMP ( ) posted Mon, 14 August 2006 at 2:22 AM

Attached Link: http://www.entheosweb.com/photoshop/layout.asp

To give you an idea of the workflow, here is a simple tut (link) on making a website layout with Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

 BTW The price for either GoLive CS2 or Dreamweaver8 is $399(US).
Those prices at stuica.com are for the Students/Educators version.

 
SWAMP

MINTY1974 ( ) posted Mon, 14 August 2006 at 4:10 AM

Thank you all for the tips. I think that Dreamweaver looks to me to be the most intuitive package. There also seem to be more tuts out there relating to Dreamweaver. Now all I have to do is learn the damn thing, sufficiently enough to have a working website in 2 weeks LOL! Cheers. Minty.

tantarus ( ) posted Mon, 14 August 2006 at 4:35 AM

On www.vecpix.com you can find very good tuts. about Dreamweaver, ImageReady, Flash :)

Tihomir
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MINTY1974 ( ) posted Mon, 14 August 2006 at 5:17 AM

Thanks again for all the advice, it always amazes me how quickly people give tips on this site. Has anyone here tried to make an e-commerce site using Dreamweaver? Any advice would be great. Thanks again sooooo much. Minty.

dreamer101 ( ) posted Mon, 14 August 2006 at 9:13 AM

Doing an e-commerce site requires knowledge of a server side language (asp or php) and knowledge of working with a database.  You also need web hosting that supports these. There are lots of places for scripts and shopping carts.

inshaala ( ) posted Thu, 17 August 2006 at 7:45 AM

adding to above - doing that kind of thing should not really be attempted by someone who is not familiar with how to do it.  If you go the php route i would recommend getting a book on specifically that and working through it.  There are free php editors out there which are very useful tools - and you would need to install a server to test your pages on when working with serverside languages - php = Apache server if that is your route.

 

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MINTY1974 ( ) posted Thu, 17 August 2006 at 1:21 PM

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm taking on board everything thats been advised. How simple would it be to design the pages with Dreamweaver myself (not doing too bad with Dreamweaver at the moment) and then getting a shopping cart integrated with my designs?

dreamer101 ( ) posted Thu, 17 August 2006 at 2:07 PM · edited Thu, 17 August 2006 at 2:11 PM

You could try something like www.zencart.com  which is free. You can have a link from your website to the shopping cart (which you would download and upload to your server) or even use the shopping cart as your website and  customize the layout, fonts, colors, logo etc.

Intihuatana ( ) posted Wed, 23 August 2006 at 3:26 AM

ZenCart is definitely an option, and it even gives you a free of cost Merchant's Account. So if you don't want to write your own shopping cart and are willing to admin MySQL it's certainly worth considering. It's definitely the best free shopping cart I have seen so far. It's entirely OpenSource.

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