I hate building things in photoshop
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- ismith0
By all means create your comps in Illustrator if you want to. I also prefer working with InDesign and wish it was more suitable for web work, but the way things are it just isn't the right tool for the job. It's not that crazy though to use InDesign in the very early stages when you're just dragging text boxes around and experimenting with your columns and grids. BUT if you already have fixed sketches then just save yourself the trouble and do the elements in Photoshop.
- ismith0
Sorry I wasn't very clear above... what I mean is InDesign is O if you're just experimenting, but those aren't files you would give to anyone else. Illustrator is fine for comps and preferred by many people, but ultimately your elements will be going into Photoshop.
- ismith0
In a perfect world, InDesign would have web-specific tools (handling pages, scrolls, animation, etc) and would translate perfectly to the web with a simple export (since you set so many parameters anyway, all you'd have to deal with are rules for the interactive layer). I've been trying to make a convincing argument for supporting something like this in the future but frankly the web is already headed off in it's own direction and it's very unlikely to change in the near future.