What are the Pros and Cons of using photoshop instead of dreamweaver or golive. Where can I find tutorials? Any help is greatly appriciated
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Photoshop for Web Design
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OK...It seems to me that you don't understand the function of/difference in these applications.
Photoshop - Used to manipulate and create images.
Dreamweaver - Used to create HTML, PHP, CSS, etc. (Code for webpages).
GoLive - Used to create HTML, PHP, CSS, etc. (Code for webpages).
In short, Photoshop can not create webpages. It's used to make images for webpages. Dreamweaver and GoLive create the code for webpages.
Photoshop - Used to manipulate and create images.
Dreamweaver - Used to create HTML, PHP, CSS, etc. (Code for webpages).
GoLive - Used to create HTML, PHP, CSS, etc. (Code for webpages).
In short, Photoshop can not create webpages. It's used to make images for webpages. Dreamweaver and GoLive create the code for webpages.
Although some people do mockups (completely visual) in Photoshop and then use the slice tool to generate an HTML page. Obviously it has to be worked (adding text and linking, etc...) after that using a program like Dreamweaver.
RBMaraman said:
I have plenty of websites submitted to me that were done in photoshop and like the second person to reply says it can be done using slices and exporting to html page. I was just asking the different pros/cons to doing it in photoshop and maybe someones experience in doing an entire webpage in photoshop.
If you don't edit a Photoshop HTML export afterward, your entire page will consist of images. Thats not really a good thing.
Photoshop is great for developing a template, and then you can extend that by adding your html/js/php/asp/etc using Dreamweaver or the like...Using ONLY Photoshop will leave any text you have in your image as an image- this will just consume unnecessary bandwith.
Dreamweaver cant edit images, Photoshop can. Photoshop can't create CSS, Dreamweaver can. The Dreamweaver/Photoshop can/can't list goes on forever.
I recommend that you use BOTH to accomplish your design. Its really not an either/or kind of question.
Photoshop is great for developing a template, and then you can extend that by adding your html/js/php/asp/etc using Dreamweaver or the like...Using ONLY Photoshop will leave any text you have in your image as an image- this will just consume unnecessary bandwith.
Dreamweaver cant edit images, Photoshop can. Photoshop can't create CSS, Dreamweaver can. The Dreamweaver/Photoshop can/can't list goes on forever.
I recommend that you use BOTH to accomplish your design. Its really not an either/or kind of question.
RBMaraman said:
That's entirely accurate.
However, from my experience Dreamweaver and GoLive don't produce very good HTML/CSS code. You can end up with unnecessary code in your HTML, and it can get a bit messy and unreadable.
I prefer to use Photoshop (and sometimes Illustrator) to create the overall design of the site, then break it apart into individual gifs/jpgs. Then do the HTML work in BBEdit or some similar text editor.
Subethaedit is a good free text editor, and has a nice web preview feature that lets you see your web page as you're working on the code:
http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
edit: forgot to mention that Subethaedit is free
claytonbench said:
Ahhh, yes! I forgot to put my brain on when I posted!
I am aware of creating full image webpages in Photoshop and exporting to HTML. In fact I've done a few sites that way.It's a good way to create template for a site. I personally don't like sites that are composed completely of images. Sometimes the load time can be extremly slow, and there's nothing worse than a slow site. I try to limit the amount of images I use when creating a site.
RBMaraman said:
I appologise for that but you sounded a little condesening when you said I obvisously dont understand the difference. so at your request i will remove it.
You may have seen a web page design mocked up in Photoshop by a graphic designer, however I would hope that a web designer takes that template a creates an actual web page. If you are actually posting an entirely graphically based web page sliced up into a table, take them down!!! My mother always said either do it right, or don't do it at all.
atari1356 said:
I agree and I think that there is a lot of benefit to doing it this way. I think that you get a much better idea of how things are actually working which can ave time in the debugging process. And I second the nomination of SubEthaEdit. I do all of my coding in it and find the syntax highlighting with the HTML & PHP plugin to be VERY useful.