InDesign to Web?
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- freshdude0
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- nb0
1. Ask your developer what file type(s) they would prefer.
2. Stop whining and start being a designer.:)
- fadein110
^ you are an idiot for not seeing a joke.
anyway - I'm off. time is money and I really do get bored of these endless debates (mac vs pc, android vs iphone, flash vs html5, indesign vs fw/ps) - got clients to keep happy!
later.- [plays with little plastic designer toys stuck to the top of my monitor]fadein11
- janne0
hey fadein11
you are an idiot
- maikel0
^ I am sure people at Adobe are totally into calling customers 'bellends'
- fadein110
Breaking news:
Just called Adobe and InDesign is a product for print. The person on the phone laughed when I mentioned using it for web design and to quote him:
"Anyone who uses InDesign for web design is a total bellend and obviously was a print design who now does a bit of web and not in a position to comment on a totally different industry."
So there you go. From the horse's mouth as it were.
- i_was0
i use Paint
- animatedgif0
This thread actually points out more problems with Adobe than it does with peoples workflows.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/201…
I mean you look at the feature list for PS CS6 and a whole bunch of them are aimed at UI design in Photoshop, when they already have 2 tools better for that same job (Well 3 if you count Illustrator).
"Path snapping"......... should it not have done this in the first place if it was meant for web design? But instead we have the quite clumsy vector mask with layer styles on to create buttons which can slip to sub pixels and have to be manually resnapped. So then you get designers who can't be bothered doing that so they make all their buttons using bitmap masks and manually marquee select then fill/delete to change the sizes. Watching people work like this is like nails on a chalkboard to me, I honestly can't believe people design UIs that way and not wonder there might be a better way to do all this.
In FW with the keyboard resize addon if I want to make a button 10px wider I select it and press option+shift+right, no zooming in and selecting right vector handles then shifting them manually or editing bitmap data.
- maikel0
You can do your layout with bloody watercolours on a canvas or Microsoft paint - just make sure you run the website through a Dev (who will hate you anyway for being designer) to remove all the crap in your source code before going live.
- ismith0
I always thought that if Adobe wanted to make a serious effort at improving the web they should dump Flash and turn InDesign into a web layout+typesetting beast, even if that meant implementing a new markup language (or superset of HTML). Take a little bit of TeX, a little bit of HTML, wrap in XML if necessary and release it into the wild...
- but that was several years ago and now I no longer care. *goes back to browsing metafont dumpsismith
- Xopher0
- don't you mean effeX?monospaced
- Try designing something without loads of effects?MrT
- Just sayin.Xopher
- Xopher0
Indesign: Print
Illustrator: Drawing stuff
Photoshop: Web, and erm photos.End.
- *buzz*
wrongmonospaced - Right.Xopher
- InDesign is great for web layouts. It's also great for digital publishing. If you think otherwise, you're naive.monospaced
- Logical, not naive.
Xopher - illustrator can be useful for web design early on as welldoesnotexist
- this is rightfadein11
- *buzz*
- pressplay0
How can a program that was built for colour correction and image editing be more appropriate for designing a website than a program that was made for layout? What about that InDesign is for print bullshit, what I see on my screen are pixels, no matter if I‘m in fucking Photoshop or InDesign...
- mekk0
This thread makes me lose my faith in professionality.
- ESKEMA0
@zarkonite
I have no problems with using any software, I use them all. I need to use several because each serve it's purpose. And for layouts, ID is far superior. I'm not saying that while using it, I won't touch PS or AI. That's just stupid and limitating. I just cringe everytime I see someone say ID is for print and can't do web. Yes it can, yes it does. And it all depends on the job in question.
Like what you show, it doesn't make much sense to do it in ID. That's fine, there's others more fit to the task. But doing The New Yorker site (http://www.newyorker.com) in PS is equally retarded.I tried to grasp FW but I wasn't confortable with it. That doesn't mean it's bad software, just that I'm bad with it and don't have a lot of time to experiment with it for now (I'm sure I'll be tempted again somewhere down the road)...
The point of this is, know your tools, know your team, use the tool you're confortable with (and the rest of the team) and use it well, if it doesn't do the job, switch to a more fitting one. Or maybe don't do stuff you shouldn't be doing at all because it makes us all look bad...
(the you's in this text do not refer to anyone in particular)
- zarkonite0
http://www.firstcarstory.com/ <-- if you were to use Indesign for a site like this, wouldn't you spend most of your time in Photoshop?
- zarkonite0
InDesign can work really well for web design, especially CMS websites. I wouldn't use it for a site that requires a lot of graphic design (in the sense of heavy use of graphics integrated with the content cuz you'll end up using photoshop for image manipulation so might as well stay in there) but anything corporate or typographic it's definitely a great tool.
Problem is, I've not met a single dev that can handle INDD files.
Question I have for you Eskema: if you have a style, like a drop shadow, on an object. How do you export that to a PNG for the web from IND? In Ps you can just make a smart object, select, copy, new file, paste, save for web.