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Pshp/dreamweaver question


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hello-
i'm a print designer that's new to web, and having some issues i'm hoping someone can answer. i made a site in photoshop, and i'm trying to figure out how to export it into dreamweaver. i made the site one photoshop doc divided up into in 3 different "pages" essentially, with each page a separate group of links/images/layouts that you can turn on/off. when i go to export it,(file/save for web/devices/save as html only) the initial "page" works fine in dreamweaver, but then when i do the following pages it messes up the initial page, i'm guessing bc some of the code is the same and it gets overwritten. what am i doing wrong? i have images of the 3 "pages" so you can have an idea of what i'm talking about if needed. thanks in advance for any help!
 
Hi Guys,

In Photoshop you can only ready the site design. After completion of site design convert into html in dream weaver. This is the best way to change the photoshop design into dream weaver.
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>> i made a site in photoshop, and i'm trying to figure out how to export it into dreamweaver

I'd recommend taking a look at SiteGrinder. You can use it to convert a layered Photoshop design into a web site pretty easily. It does a lot too, I find that I don't use DreamWeaver so much when I'm working with SG.
 
I'd suggest spending a few hours learning HTML/CSS, as that route will save you endless amounts of time down the road. DreamWeaver and SiteGrinder are both viable options, but just like their equivalent software, they are not inherently easier to learn or adapted to modern web-standards. If you only have three pages that you need readied for web, you can always just use the Slice-method in Photoshop to convert them into viable HTML, that you afterwards can improve.

If you need some troubleshooting on HTML/CSS or your finished documents, just post a link to them here and I can go over them to see what is malfunctioning.
 
>> I'd suggest spending a few hours learning HTML/CSS, as that route will save you endless amounts of time down the road.

"a few hours" ? That seems a bit disingenuous, don't you think?. Learning HTML/CSS well enough to convert any sophisticated design is a lot of study. I've spent a lot of time in my career mastering HTML and CSS (not to mention PHP, Javascript, jQuery, SQL, best practices for following web standards, accessibility, SEO, etc.) and to suggest to someone that they are going to be up to speed in a few hours is a bit of a disservice to that person. Beginners, in particular, can get themselves in a lot of trouble and generally produce very low quality code.

>> DreamWeaver and SiteGrinder are both viable options, but just like their equivalent software, they are not inherently easier to learn or adapted to modern web-standards.

Yes they are both viable. But they are also easier. SiteGrinder, in particular, is a lot easier to learn and is quite well adapted to modern web standards. DreamWeaver is bit harder to pin down. Its WYSIWYG tools are easier, but often require the user to know how to code to be useful. But it's also a quite good code editor/debugger, so even if someone was going to the learn-to-code route I'd recommend it.
 
Oh, you are absolutely right; I too have spent years learning the trade. I just wanted to suggest that he look into the basics rather than delve into DreamWeaver or the like. By the looks of it, he doesn't currently need a very advanced setup, and a few pages would suffice; so I thought offering quick HTML/CSS troubleshooting here would be easier for him rather than explain the process in DreamWeaver.
 
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