designing websites
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- felizfeliz0
paper first, then...
if it's going to be a Flash site, might as well do it in flash, you can be more precise by positioning things at absolute pixels in the 'info' panel. or by setting up your grid to 'always snap' and turning of the the other 'snap to options'.
As you design you can set everything out already in to movieclips, and then it cuts your build time in half.
if you are using a particular style for all the boxes or buttons on your site, you can quickly make one as a movieclip with scale-9. then use it for all of the rest and when you need to change the style, you change the one movieclip and can instantly see the change across the whole design. Taking it a step further, you can also design the button rollover states/motion at the same time and get a feel for how the site 'interacts'. and you can start to program the site dynamics if it's to be a liquid layout, and so it helps inform your design process.
if the site is going to use lots of bitmaps/photos as the design and not using vectors then photoshop.
and if it's not flash:
- I never found drawter usable for anything.. how do you use it for design?rafalski