In design to HTML
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- Stugoo
Anyone designed/built a site like this?
- ItalianStallion0
You mean from InDesign to HTML code?
Yes I'm doing it right now...- can you tell us a little more about how it's working out? any tips or tricks?lambsy
- mydo0
i tried doing a 200 page website in illustrator once.
the topic got a varied response! http://www.qbn.com/topics/612664…
- lambsy0
supposedly they were pushing this topic in their adobe live training seminars all last summer. i never went to one, but i heard from others that went that the workflow and features were pretty cool.
- Stugoo0
I'm talking to a designer who made a site in InDesign. I have to build it.
Looking to see if its common. ive built from flash, photoshop and illustrator but never InDesign.I have a pdf which I've ripped open to Illustrator but is obviously not ideal.
- A designer who designs sites in InDesign is a print designer. Should slap this fool.********
- That's ridiculous. If the final product works and everyone stays solvent, it's an all-around win.gramme
- A designer who designs sites in InDesign is a print designer. Should slap this fool.
- Timson0
File > Cross-media Export > XHTML / Dreamweaver
I'm struggling with one as we speak. Does the trick but am not happy with the code at all.- any automatically generated code is going to be uglyhans_glib
- really really ugly. Programmers will hate you.section_014
- shitehawke0
stugoo, ive seen people where I work design websites in indesign. Two reaons, they are mainly print heads and its easy to make multiple pages and export to pdf for client review.
Usually I end up outputting a pdf, bringing it into photoshop for clean up, and getting the dimensions of everything right, then chopping and coding.
- Ranger0
I've designed sites loosely in InDesign, it is quick and it is dirty. It's advantage as Mr Shitehawke said because you can generate lots of different pages and show what content will go where to clients.
You have to rebuild it again properly though when the general design is signed off.
You can help by keeping all the text and various components on layers - then you can export EPS files and rebuild from there.
- Stugoo0
spanking.
I think the pdf > tidy up is the best bet.
when I asked for the psd the guy says 'oh thats a bit strange'
so i was a tad worried :)cheers for the input.
- monospaced0
The main frustration I have with InDesign when creating web elements (shit, anything measured in pixels) is that it doesn't like to work in pixels at all. I don't do it that often, but more and more I'm asked to create small web elements to my projects, and I love to work in InDesign as well. Any suggestions on how to make it play nicer with pixels?
- Good call - especially when adobe are pushing the multimedia side of itRanger
- It will let you use Ciceros and Agates as units, whatever the fuck those are, but still no pixelsmonospaced
- gramme0
I've had conversations along these lines with developers many times. It's a lot easier to design and lock things up (for me, anyway) in InDesign. Either they have to transpose elements from ID to PS, or I do.
It's been my experience that points and pixels are 99.99% the same thing. Not quite but close. So, if my site is 950 px wide, I make my InDesign file size or live area 950 pt wide. That said, I'm *really* hoping CS5 introduces the ability to select pixels as units of measure in InDesign.
- thoughtandtheory0
I could see wireframes maybe, but trying to auto-export code is always going to be a nightmare. As long as people aren't using it as a crutch because you don't understand the web, developers shouldn't give a damn as long as the HTML is simple, clean and semantic.
- clearThoughts0
This might help.
- vaxorcist0
NOTE!!!! You can do things in Indesign that don't translate well to the web... for example, your print designer has total control over font metrics, you don't... so in Indesign multiple text boxes of varying sizes can be made to line up exactly vertically and horizontally at a footer, in HTML that can be done with lots of labor in jQuery, but even then not easily and cleanly.... and it creates a codepile that's hard to maintain and change if the print designer suddenly tweeks something, you have to re-do alot more than they do.... I fought the indesign -> web thing painfully in 2006... jQuery wasn't commonly used then....
- Stugoo0
Cheers again chaps in building this this week its for mobile too which is double challenge. Will advise.