I’ve recently inherited the task of prepring a couple of micro-sites for our business as the guy who used to do then no longer works here. I’ve got a copy of dreamweaver mx 2004 but have no experience in this area. I’ve done plenty of 2D graphics work over the years, but never web design.
I would be gratefull if those of you who do web design could give me some pointers to get me started. Books, online tutorials, tips etc. What do you guys use for layout - Dreamweaver, illustrator, indesign, photshop etc?
Unfortunately the current economic climate means I can’t book a training course and will have to slog it out myself.
A great way to start a website is to use a cms system like joomla, pixelpost, or wordpress. You then only need to adjust the templates to get the look you want.
My website uses wordpress with a customised theme, a gallery plugin, and video plugins for the vimeo embedding.
Hm, I do my layouts in illustrator, if necessary I import them in Photoshop to export image-portions as gif or jpeg.
I never use any automatic slicing-features and put it together piece by piece in Dreamweaver - I use more and more divs instead of tables in Dreamweaver.
Books? Cannot help, did everything by trial and error in Dreamweaver - sometimes do the code manually - but…
…it´s a while ago I used Dreamweaver and HTML, because we mostly do Flash-projects for our clients - but the workflow is the same: layouts in illustrator, if necessary photoshop, bring it together in flash and make fun.