Monday, December 28, 2009

When making a website do you write the text in Dreamweaver or Photoshop?

I am learning the basics.When making a website do you write the text in Dreamweaver or Photoshop?
It depends on the type of text where talking about. For ';artistic'; text like logos and banners, use a graphics program, either PhotoShop or Fireworks or The Gimp.





For the bulk of the text entry, given the choices you posted, Dreamweaver.





However, for my own purposes? Neither.





I almost always install a content management system with version control, like Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, or WordPress, use Dreamweaver and Fireworks to customize or create templates (themes) and then write the bulk of the text either directly in the web browser, or cut-and-paste larger work from a word processor.When making a website do you write the text in Dreamweaver or Photoshop?
If the choice is between those two packages, then Dreamweaver (Photoshop is used for creating images, not webpages).





But I'd hold off on Dreamweaver if you are learning the basics. It can help speed up your work once you know what you are doing, but until you have a good grasp of HTML you aren't going to know about to compensate for its limitations.
dreamweaver is for the site itself
You can make a graphic in photoshop to place on your website, as long as you size it correctly, but you normally make the website itself in something else, depending on how you make it.

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