subject: fireworks vs writing manually html+css with the occasional help of dreamweaver
Hello there
I do not know if this is the best forum for this question but at least I have not found any other more related to my question.
I want to ask you a question about using fireworks to develop web sites. It turns out, that I have been playing around with fireworks 8 and I have realized that this program is able to change your png file with slices, roll overs and all kind of cool effects into a website with the corresponding html files.
Now my question is: I do not know when I should use fireworks to develop a website instead of using for example css with the help of dreamweaver. The problem I find when using fireworks is that it's really hard to read the code it generates because it uses tables. Thus, it might be a hard task to modify manually the html code of a website developed with fireworks. Moreover since I have read in tons of websites that css is much better than tables, I thought that using Fireworks might be no so good. Neverteless, it seems that fireworks might speed up the process of developing a website quite a lot.
In conclusion, I am quite confused about the advantages and disadvantages of using a program like Fireworks 8 in contrast to developing your websites basically by writing manually your html and css code with just the help of dreamweaver from time to time.
Since I know that there are a lot of people who might have lot of ideas and suggestions, I would appreciate any comment about this issue. I am starting into web design . Furthermore, I realize that you can do the same website by using different tools, but I would like to learn the most standard way of doing things or if possible the advantages and disadvantages of each website development tool like Fireworks, Dreamweaver or any other similar tool that you might think that is interesting. What is more, I am trying to learn when I should use one tool or another, or for what I should use one tool or another. Since, there is a lot to learn, I just want to learn it bit a bit.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: fireworks vs writing manually html+css with the occasional h
I'd say it's way better to manually code it.
Once you know how to css it, it goes pretty fast
Once you know how to css it, it goes pretty fast
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Re: fireworks vs writing manually html+css with the occasional h
Thanks for that. I wanted to have people's opinion like yours because I have seen a lot of websites which are designed by people who claim to be professional and they use tables. For example: http://www.newclick.es/Mini wrote:I'd say it's way better to manually code it.
Once you know how to css it, it goes pretty fast
or
http://www.sipec.es/
or
http://www.klimatica.net/
all of which have been designed by newclick.es and use tables.
That is why I thought there might be sometimes when it is better to use tables. I just thought that these people were using tables because they might be using some kind of program like fireworks to develop their html code. And since they are supposed to be proffessional, I thought, they might have some sound reasons to do what they do.
In conclusion, a better technique might be doing a prototype with fireworks with the cool effects such as roll overs for buttons and may be cool images with gradients or whatever. After that I could export the images without marking the option "Include areas without slices" of the fireworks 8 export window. Afterwards, I might use these images to code manually the css layers in my dreamweaver. That might be a good choice, what do you think?
Re: fireworks vs writing manually html+css with the occasional h
Fireworks is an excellent program to design websites. For coding of the site you should - in my opinion - learn how to write code. Using any tool to automatically create the code for you will not get you good results.
The companies you pointed to using tables are not professionals. They might have been 10 years ago, and since then haven't spend any time keeping up with developments.
The companies you pointed to using tables are not professionals. They might have been 10 years ago, and since then haven't spend any time keeping up with developments.
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My interest in web design started with Frontpage 98. It was visual and easy to create basic websites with. However as I wanted more control over my code I found myself wrestling with FP98. So IMHO if you're headed down the right path you'll eventually find yourself feeling constrained by using a WYSIWYG editor regardless of what it it.
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Re: fireworks vs writing manually html+css with the occasional h
That's true.JAB Creations wrote:My interest in web design started with Frontpage 98. It was visual and easy to create basic websites with. However as I wanted more control over my code I found myself wrestling with FP98. So IMHO if you're headed down the right path you'll eventually find yourself feeling constrained by using a WYSIWYG editor regardless of what it it.