Illustrator CS4 for Web Design
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- letterhead0
I use illustrator / photoshop / flash / beer / dreamweaver to slay all my kickass designz
- Scotch_Roman0
I prefer to design sites in InDesign, at least for figuring out my grid, setting non-HTML type, etc. Multiple pages are easier to navigate than layers.
Depending on budget, I'll then either bring art into Photoshop layers, or have the developer handle that part. I don't touch the coding aspect. Don't even have web design apps here.
- acs80
Does anyone use SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics for web in Illustrator?
- ESPtype0
illy all the way
- peddy28isgreat0
You should'nt be "designing" in photoshop. This is slightly less true on CS3 & 4 b/c they work together better now, but I design in Illy much better. PS = editing photos.
- monospaced0
As I do primarily print, I do nearly all my work in InDesign, with a heavy dose of Illustrator for when I need to draw or create smaller pieces. Photoshop has become just that, a place to work on images that will eventually get placed into my work. I find that I can create just about anything this way.
That being said, what about Photoshop makes designing a website better? I honestly can't see.
- fiesta0
The artboards feature in illustrator certainly kicks the shit out of photoshop
- MrT0
http://www.qbn.com/topics/584653…
Is this what it's become?
Did anyone ask Paul Rand which brand of pencil he used?Who gives a shit what you use.
- ukit0
Maybe I'm missing something but it seems pretty simple.
1) Use the vector tool with the best drawing capabilities for drawing your basic layout and shapes.
2) Use the best bitmap tool for finishing touches and prepping for the web.
I know, it sounds crazy, I like to live on the edge.
- acs80
If photoshop had the same, more advanced align tool and the ability to copy font and text styles using the eyedropper as in Illustrator, then there's hardly much difference if you're familiar with vector layers in Photoshop. It's about time Adobe just merged Illustrator and Photoshop into one neat package.
- they are both bloated to fucking billy-o as it is... c'mon, don't you want a program that just flies?Amicus
- Raniator0
I wouldn't post if this was buried way down but seeing as it's not...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
No, really. Fucking haha.
Ever thought of using, you know, an actual fucking website application... for... designing... websites?
- monoboy0
Illustrator is a vector based design and layout tool.
Photoshop is a bitmap based image editing tool.
Fireworks is a vector/bitmap based web design tool.I use whatever the client or developers preference is. Personally, I use Illy when designing or developing myself. It's much faster than PS.
- stewart0
i ALWAYS use inDesign for designing wireframes and websites.
pro's: quickly add/copy/delete text and pages, paragraph styles, creating RGB pdf's in the right color space for client reviews etc etc.
the final mockup in Photoshop, of course.
- Dancer0
Illy is not Pixel perfect and anti-alias's everything, where as PS has a clean finish. Try saving our a single pixel keyline in Illy – ewwww.
- You can set prefs to snap to pixel, or position 1px keylines at .5px. Gives the exact same result at PS. Except you can edit it far more easily.monoboy
- plusminusbox0
Photoshop.
- Not_Just_Another0
Unless you're designing a flash site where you'll want to keep vectors intact, I'd stick to using Photoshop for web design. You're designing for screen, so why not use a program that excels at doing just that.
If you get a nice grid set up with your guides, you can knock up a design just as quick as you could in Illustrator, and you've already created the assets to send to the Dev team.
I suppose it's each to their own, but for me, its Photoshop all the way.
- ukit0
I guess my preference for Illustrator boils down to the fact that I like to start my design by drawing out the shapes in a wireframe style and being able to have those as vectors to style in any way. Drawing paths seems easier and more intuitive in Illustrator.
Now if you want to throw some lens flares and rainbows around I guess PS is your ticket.
- wademd0
I think fireworks is the only program I have yet to figure out what its purpose is I mean with Illustrator/Photoshop and if you don't know to code by hand there was Dreamweaver... But does fireworks really need to exist?
- for those Animated Gif banners, it'll optimize the shit out of anything.zarkonite
- zarkonite0
Fireworks.
It's built and designed with the purpose of creating web content, at least that's what Adobe's business plan says. It handles all types of content we use for the web, it's like they took the features from Ill and PS that made sense for web design and packaged them in an application...
in any case, use whatever you have to and get the job done... personally, I use marijuana to help me design.