I am so sick off...
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- i_monk0
I'm a print designer and I agree. I rarely ever design for the web, but when I do it's in PS or AI to PS. The only reason I can think of for wanting to use ID is if you have some highly specific formatting for the text (this "CSS" stuff you kids are all about), but you wouldn't expect the web monkey to build the site from that file, just have it for reference.
- BonSeff0
Rand and me have been drinking at the DFW.
Shitasses.
- monoboy0
Gotta love the way developers think they own the interwebs because they mark up clean XHTML.
- Naygon0
So Adobe should now ship InDesign with their CS5 Web Premium bundle?
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Leave that to the designers.monospaced - how do the devs open your files?Naygon
- With InDesign, smartass.monospaced
- Okay got it. So I need to buy a new license for my devs because you're using ID. Sounds about rightNaygon
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- BonSeff0
what difference does it make if it is an indesign file or on a etchasketch? code that piss up.
- i_monk0
More fighting please.
- d_rek0
Monospaced,
Here you are talking about lazy developers but can't that same logic be applied to the designer who refuses to use the right tool for the job simply because they're 'more comfortable' using something else? That's pretty hypocritical.
Sure, you can use a website 'designed' with Indesign as reference material for a website but outside of text how do you expect a developer to be able to translate imagery/graphics from indesign into an appropriate web format? Images and graphic that cannot be achieved with code must be optimized for the web - meaning it must go through a process that compresses or compromises image quality. You cannot simply 'copy+paste' images and graphics into code.
- Don't web designers know how to save images for the web? They have it easy, it doesn't work in the other direction.i_monk
- No shit. They copy and paste into Photoshop and optimize that shit because they aren't designers! They're code jockeys.monospaced
- d_rek0
FUCK YOU I'M _______.
- d_rek0
So in otherwords the developer is the one held to the double-standard? Fuck them it's they're job to make it work any way possible? And it's not really the designers job to make sure their designs translate into a pixel-based environment accurately?
I'm sorry but that sounds like an incredibly naive view of the subject.
- I still design to the right size in InDesign, but I won't waste my time creating all this shit in PS, that's for fucking sure.monospaced
- cannonball19780
I like green. It's better than red when you want to say go.
- JSK0
Where are yours folios?
- whistleblower0
+1
- JazX0
ha ha, that's an age old problem. form versus function.
- SoulFly0
I gotta say, monospaced may have a point there, InDesign may be helpful in designing a complete website of multiple pages. I had contemplated on that once before.
I will definitely blow everyone out of this industry from now on.
- dbloc0
actually...I agree.
- Mr_Know0
The medium it's created in shouldn't have anything to do with your skills with CSS and html, or did I miss something?
- Rand0
just add more money to your bid for translating a site from InDesign, your lordship
- adamm0
Well if a print designer has no idea about css, html, divs, or anything on that basic level, yes it can effect the design and level of expectancy for there "vision".
- well said! but not well written.11
- My point being that with the advent of newer technologies like jQuery, html5 and css3 it should be relatively easy toMr_Know
- make any print design work in html. Hell, you don't even have to make it move.Mr_Know
- Perhaps I'm ignorant as to what they are asking you to do, but i can't think of anything that would be difficultMr_Know
- I get that alot!adamm
- Why not just do it in illy or ps?DrBombay