ID CS5 for designing websites?

Hi there all you helpful people!
I have asked this question before - but it was a while ago and I wondered if things had changed for anyone.
Is anyone using IDCS5 for designing/prototyping websites?
I am a print and web designer and use ID for all my print work and FW for all my web work.
Increasingly I am getting more and more frustrated with FW - so many simple things that it does sooooooo badly compared to ID.
Now that IDCS5 has the ability to design in pixels there is the option to design websites in ID, however, it will not export to png format and I know that will make it hard for our coders to use.
Does anybody have any experiences of using it to design websites and if you do, what workflow do you use?
Thanks in advance.
Tom

tpstom-ggDek1 wrote:
Bob - to clarify - I don't produce the websites, just design/prototype them.
I get them to a stage where they look good and the content is right and then they go to a professional coder to be created.
In my experience, you will have great difficulty exporting everything your coder/developer requires from InDesign. Once designed, typically your developer will need individual images for each section and hex color codes - both of which are not easy to get from InDesign alone.
I have used InDesign for 'Prototyping' a website but more for the functionality and to show several pages but the design was 100% done in Photoshop. Basically I exported a JPEG from PS of every page in the website that is different and then imported that into InD - one JPEG per page. I then overlayed buttons on top to show the menu working and when clicked, navigated to those pages via InD buttons "Go to Page" function. The buttons themselves can have a gradient overlay so it looks like they are being hovered over. It gave a rather simple example of how the website would finally function and was saved as a PDF so all reviewers could see it.
InDesign was also used for the style guide which was then sent to the developer, which included all hex codes, text styles and dimensions.
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