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Does anyone here do much web design? Tibbar, myself and others are looking to put together a website that would be interactive and design intensive. We are looking at both Macormedia's Studio suite and Adobe's creative suite. While we are all more familiar with Adobe software and might be able to get good results faster with that we also want the best tools possible and would be willing to learn a different style of designing. I work a lot with print layout, too so that is another reason I tend toward Adobe but Macromedia's software might be better for web. Any comments? |
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maybe phobs or someone on the "ins" with xlt has some suggestions? |
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btw: YOU... SHALL NOT... PASS!!!!!! |
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glasse, you want Abode for graphics creation, and dreamweaver for the actual site architecutre. Trust me. I dont know if GoLive has improved in recent versions but it was shit compared to dreamweaver when i used it. |
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Personally, since I do web design/programming for a living, I'll say this: For coding and site construction, Dreamweaver MX 2004 is tops. Adobe's Go Live (even the new CS version) is not up to par with it. Sure, you lose the intergration somewhat with Adobe's other products, but you can rectify that via the preferences panel. If you're going to do interactive stuff on your site in terms of animation and presentation display, Flash is a must. Now, if your site is a standard fare with regular graphics, then Adobe PhotoShop/ImageReady (comes with PS) wins hands down in terms of bitmap graphics creation. Fireworks is nice, but Adobe is a more robust product. If you like to do your design in vector graphics, then Adobe Illustrator is a must - Freehand and Fireworks doesn't hold a candle to it. My suggestion would be to go with Adobe Photoshop CS, and Dreamweaver MX 2004. That's all you'll ever reall need for website design and programming. Feel free to email me with any specific questions you might have. |
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Yeah. Illlustrator = essential. |
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I just got Dreamweaver, It seems pretty good, but I haven't actually tried to 'design' a site yet. I just got my with the university a couple days ago so I pretty much just threw down some photoshop pictures i did in a haphazard manner :D |
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what the hell is going on here? arrg. one more |
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I use both freehand and illustrator at work and I find that illustrator has a lot more advanced options, although freehand is sometimes easier to use for performing simple tasks |
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Like, fuck it |
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Thank you all for the advice. I am thinking it might be better to buy select applications from both rather than one companies entire suite. |
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Illustrator gets eaiser, including the simple tasks - just stick with it and in no time you'll be able to do things with it you never thought possible. |
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Drawing with vector is a counterintuitive concept, and it takes practice to use the pen tool effectively. But it's quite powerful. |
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