Need Help Reslicing Photoshop Site Layout to Update Dreamweaver Template

Question

I created a website in adobe photoshop cs3 and sliced it up
to created an html file with sliced images. My main navigation menu
is made up of graphics.
I brought it into dreamweaver and created editable regions,
created rollovers etc. Then I created a dreamweaver template from
that to create the rest of the web pages for my site.
The client has come back to me and wants to add more menu
options to the site. This is where I'm stuck! When I use photoshop
to make more menu slices, it renumbers them. How do I export the
new slices with the new layout so I can use them to update my
dreamweaver template. How can I get those new slices/html layout to
the dreamweaver template without losing all the work I have done on
my current dreamweaver template?
issuenite

Answer 1

> Why does photohshop even provided a slicing feature if
it does not provide
> good code?
The slicing is not the problem. It's the export as HTML that
is the
problem. And you'd have to ask Adobe that question if you
want an answer.
We are all just volunteer peers here.
> What is better about Fireworks? I have the program but
have never used
> it.
FW HTML is no better.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/why_fireworks.html
At any rate, read this -
http://apptools.com/rants/spans.php
- and then look
at your code and count colspan, and rowspan attributes.
Unfortunately, the
only way to avoid this mess is to learn enough HTML/CSS that
you can build
your own tables in DW, and do it in such a way that you don't
rely on
merging and splitting cells (which is what generates those
colspan and
rowspan attributes).
Again, unfortunately, you are REALLY stuck in a bad
situation. Since you
have a) used a completely graphic menu button array, and b)
used a graphic
background behind the menu buttons, and c) chosen to embed
that graphic
background in each sliced button, you cannot add new buttons
without
remaking the entire menu. You will only make that mistake
once. I never
start building menus until I have an approved site plan in
hand. By the
way, that's a nice looking layout.
I don't see any clear path to salvation here. Since you are
absolutely tied
to PS for exporting the HTML and slices, you will have to
recreate
everything, I believe.
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"issuenite" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> >That's a very bad start. This HTML is *not* suitable
for production use.
>
> Why does photohshop even provided a slicing feature if
it does not provide
> good code?
>
>
> > If you used FW to create the graphics, and DW to
build the page and
> > write
> > the HTML, you wouldn't be having this problem.
However, if you post a
> > link
> > to the page, we will likely be able to help you.
>
>
> What is better about Fireworks? I have the program but
have never used
> it.
>
> The site is in its infancy at www.kevinkipfer.com
>
> thanks
> issuenite
>