best web design process
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- Natson13
Can anyone help me out here with the best web design process. I'm having a debate with a colleague who is arguing his point that I should be designing websites in InDesign not P-Shop, to make life easier and quicker for him to edit my designs, then exporting from there.... from InDesign?
- fadein110
No!
inDesign is for print.
I personally use PS for web design but others may use Illustrator or Fireworks...
But not inDesign - never!
- Gucci0
I've heard of people using ID to mock their sites up. It's all a matter of preference, really. If you do it in Illustrator at a 1px x 1px grid and export from there, you're golden.
If you do it in photoshop, it can be a bit clunky at times, but at least it's pixel perfect every time.
- ukit20
It all comes down to opinion, however I'm sure the vast majority of people use Photoshop.
- pillhead0
haha I had the same problem last year with a Holiday company I work for.
As most people will say, hopefully, Indesign is used for Print, PH for Screen.
- dijitaq0
please stick to illy or fireworks. photoshop if you must. better fireworks though.
- animatedgif0
End of thread. All the pixel based advantages of Photoshop, all the page, vector and export advantages of Illustrator.
If you need to do any advanced masking or airbrushing you can always do that in photoshop then drag the file straight into FW
Same with if you need the advanced vector tools from Illustrator you can copy+paste that straight into FW.
- Once you get the hang of it the idea of using anything else is ridiculousanimatedgif
- I must admit to getting up to speed with FW for Web, I am getting sick of PH and it's stupid over bloated crap like 3D, WTF!pillhead
- Fireworks is a little clunky just because it's been neglected by Adobe. But it does the job well.animatedgif
- I've had a similar battle here this week. FW is the best web graphics program out of Illi and PS.spot13
- sine0
CorelDraw
- toodee0
I thought everyone designed in browser these days?
- inteliboy0
Using Indesign (or even Illustrator to an extent) is not a very smart way to go about designing a website. It shows an almost stubborn mentality - this is simply not what the industry does and you'll struggle to work with other people outside of your own bubble.
I've only once been handed an indesign file as a web design/template, followed by much swearing and eye rolls. This guy just sounds like a lazy git.
- yipfadein11
- <---pillhead
- +1 It's like a few years ago working with a print designer who has to do a websiteanimatedgif
- not saying you're wrong, but that's quite a stubborn statement.Fax_Benson
- jadrian_uk0
bollocks
- inteliboy0
^ Yup. If you do "web design" as a living, Fireworks seems to be pretty much the way to go.
- ukit20
True pros go for Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional
- 2012 ME Editioninteliboy
- It sounds like a joke, but that's actually the name
http://www.microsoft…ukit2 - haha FUCKING LOLD!animatedgif
- ORAZAL0
Everybody's got their preference. If your going to argue using statistics I think it's safe to say that it's PS is the "industry standard". But since it's possible to design in both (PS & ID) it's going to come down to who has the biggest dick.
- ESKEMA0
If you know what you're doing, the software will not matter.
I find myself switching and using PS AI ID together...
ID is really good at layouts (new version with pixels, not the old ones without), styles are very handy here, AI for complex vectors, PS for everything image. I don't give a fuck what you all use and swear by, the only thing that matters is to know what you're doing and do it well.
- uan0
^ I agree layouts and style (and css conversion) are best handled in indesign.
basically it depends on the site you are designing.
- fadein110
amazed that anyone uses ID for web design...
- Fax_Benson0
ESKEMA made the best point. It doesn't matter which software you use unless you have a set-in-stone process that others need to adhere to. Design firms get tied to a particular way of working (for good reason) and often ignore potentially better ways of doing things. Anything that might interfere with the process becomes anathema.
I don't see a problem in using ID for web layouts. The book, story, paragraph style options most closely represent the way stylesheets work, surely?
- yes but you don't export styles from ID surely - awful codefadein11
- Fireworks has styles too...animatedgif
- Fax_Benson0
I boil my eggs in the kettle.