Web design reference/faq
Any faq or preferred design tools on OS X?
I do not have .Mac account, is that a problem to use iWeb?
Thanks
On iWeb, any books or user guides here?
Do a search on Amazon for iWeb or iLife. Also this one (but for iWeb 1 rather than 2):
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/iweb.html
is it pretty easy on getting data from MySQL or other RDBMS?
No, that kind of stuff is really outside the scope of iWeb or .Mac.
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Vocabulary for web design and beyond
Anyone tackling web design will encounter dozens of unfamiliar terms. I have compiled together this glossary to help them. I may update and expand in the future. Until then, feel free to use or pass along.
Some of these terms don’t relate strictly to web design, but also to computer graphics and computer programming generally, as I’ve found that such terms are also important to reading and understanding any tutorials or other materials on web design.
Asynchronous (1) General use. Not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase. (2) Digital communication. Pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are instead derived from special characters in the data stream.
Bitmap image Image that uses geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes, which are all based on mathematical equations. In a bitmap image, each pixel on a display screen is assigned at least one bit to indicate whether the pixel should reflect the background color, the foreground color, or some other color. each pixel in the bitmap might have 16, 24, or 48 bits of information associated with it. The more bits, the greater the resolution of the bitmap – and the larger the file. Compare Vector image.
C (programming language) General-purpose computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. It was designed for implementing system software and is also widely used for developing portable application software. C has greatly influenced many other popular programming languages, most notably C++, which began as an extension to C.
C++ Statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C language and originally named C with Classes. It was renamed C++ in 1983.
Cache Component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere. If requested data is contained in the cache (cache hit), this request can be served by simply reading the cache, which is comparatively faster. Otherwise (cache miss), the data has to be recomputed or fetched from its original storage location, which is comparatively slower.
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
ColdFusion Programming language based on standard HTML that is used to write dynamic webpages. It allows for the creation of pages that differ depending on user input, database lookups, time of day, or other criteria. ColdFusion pages consist of standard HTML tags together with CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) tags such as <CFQUERY>, <CFIF> and <CFLOOP>. ColdFusion was introduced by Allaire in 1996, acquired by Macromedia in a merger in April 2001, and acquired by Adobe in December 2005.
Compound selector Can be used to combine two or more style rules to create a style definition that displays only when one style is contained within another. Compound styles are useful when you want to do something like use the Heading 1 tag multiple times to format headlines in different ways on the same web page. For example, you could create one style for headlines that appear in the main story area of a page and then create another style for headlines that appear in the sidebar on the page and still use the Heading 1 tag to format both. Compound styles are created by combining ID, class, or tag styles and look like this: #sidebar h1.
Contextual selector A type of Style Sheet Selector that
CRE Loaded Open source online store management and shopping cart system for e-commerce from Chain Reaction eCommerce. It is based on osCommerce, runs on any LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server, and is supported by an active international community of users and developers. For a monthly subscription ($10/mo. as of 2011), CRE Loaded allows small and medium-sized merchants to accept credit card payments in a web site that mirrors their own online stores.
CSS See Cascading Style Sheet.
Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language (such as HTML), a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), a presentation definition language (such as CSS), and the Document Object Model. DHTML allows scripting languages to change variables in a web page's definition language, which in turn affects the look and function of otherwise “static” HTML page content, after the page has been fully loaded and during the viewing process.
ECMA International International membership-based non-profit standards organization for information and communication systems.
ECMAScript Scripting language standardized by Ecma International in the ECMA-262 specification and ISO/IEC 16262. The language is widely used for client-side scripting on the web, in the form of several well-known dialects such as JavaScript, JScript, and ActionScript.
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) Family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely used HTML, the language in which web pages are written. While HTML (prior to HTML5) was defined as an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a very flexible markup language framework, XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML. Because XHTML documents need to be well-formed, they can be parsed using standard XML parsers—unlike HTML, which requires a lenient HTML-specific parser.
Extensible Markup Language Set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards. Its design goals emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet. It is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for the languages of the world. Known by its acronym XML.
HTML See HyperText Markup Language.
Hypermedia Graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks that intertwine to create a generally non-linear medium of information. This contrasts with the broader term multimedia, which may be used to describe non-interactive linear presentations as well as hypermedia. The World Wide Web is a classic example of hypermedia, whereas a non-interactive cinema presentation is an example of standard multimedia due to the absence of hyperlinks.
Hypertext Text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Predominant markup language and basic building-block of webpages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags, enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>), within the web page content. HTML tags normally come in pairs like <h1> and </h1>. The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag (they are also called opening tags and closing tags). Known by its acronym HTML.
Hypertext preprocessor (PHP) Widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. It brings life to websites by communicating with external data sources, such as databases, news feeds, and XML documents. PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. PHP 3 was launched in 1998; PHP 4 was released in 2000; and PHP 5 was released in 2005.
Java Programming language released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture. Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented language that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere". Java is currently one of the most popular programming languages in use, and is widely used from application software to web applications.[
JavaScript Implementation of the ECMAScript language standard and is typically used to enable programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment. It can be characterized as a prototype-based object-oriented scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions.
JPEG Commonly used method of Lossy compression for digital photography that was named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the standard. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.
Linux Family of Unix-like computer operating systems using the Linux kernel (central OS component). Linux can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from mobile phones, tablet computers and video game consoles, to mainframes and supercomputers. The development of Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially, by anyone under licenses such as the GNU General Public License.
Lossy compression Data encoding method which discards (loses) some of the data, in order to achieve its goal, with the result that decompressing the data yields content that is different from the original, though similar enough to be useful in some way. Lossy compression is most commonly used to compress multimedia data (audio, video, still images), especially in applications such as streaming media and internet telephony. By contrast, lossless compression is required for text and data files, such as bank records, text articles, etc.
MySQL Relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. Acronym for “My Structured Query Language.”
Open source Describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Before the term open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code.
osCommerce Open source Commerce. It allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs involved. Combines open source solutions to provide a free and open development platform, which includes the PHP web scripting language, the Apache web server, and the MySQL database server. With no restrictions or special requirements, osCommerce can be installed on any PHP3 or PHP4 enabled web server, on any environment that PHP and MySQL supports, which includes Linux, Solaris, BSD, and Microsoft Windows environments.
PHP See Hypertext preprocessor.
Rasterization The process of converting a Vector image into a Bitmap image.
Rasterize See Rasterization.
Shopping cart software Software used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online. The software allows online shopping customers to accumulate a list of items for purchase. Upon checkout, the software typically calculates a total for the order, including shipping and handling (i.e. postage and packing) charges and the associated taxes.
Style sheet selector One of the two parts of a CSS rule (the other being the properties, or declaration block) that declares which of the markup elements a style applies to. Selectors may apply to all elements of a specific type, or only those elements that match a certain attribute (e.g., how they are placed relative to each other in the markup code, or on how they are nested within the document object model). There are many types of style sheet selectors: element selectors, which select by element name; class selectors, which select by class name; contextual selectors, which select by context based on parent elements (what the element is nested within or what precedes it in the document), etc..
Supercomputer Computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers are typically one-of-a-kind custom designs produced by companies such as Cray, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, who had purchased many of the 1980s companies to gain their experience. Since October 2010, the Tianhe-1A supercomputer, located in China, has been the fastest in the world.
Tag Non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system. HTML tags include paragraph, heading 1, heading 2, etc.
Unix Computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs. The Unix operating system was first developed in assembly, which is machine-dependent and a low-level programming language. Ken Thompson created the B language in 1969 and Unix was written in the B language, a high-level programming language. The first Unix system written in C was released in November 1973.
Vector image Image made up of numerous individual, scalable objects. These objects are defined by mathematical equations rather than pixels, so they always render at the highest quality. Objects may consist of lines, curves, and shapes with editable attributes such as color, fill, and outline. Changing the attributes of a vector object does not effect the object itself. Compare Bitmap image.
Vector processor Central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set containing instructions that operate on one-dimensional arrays of data called vectors. This is in contrast to a scalar processor, whose instructions operate on single data items. Also known as array processor.
Web analytics Measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data, including the number of visitors and page views, for understanding and optimizing web usage. It can be used as a tool for measuring website traffic and for business and market research. Web analytics applications can also help companies measure the results of traditional print advertising campaigns. It helps one to estimate how the traffic to the website changed after the launch of a new advertising campaign.
Web design Design of the way that content is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, using a web browser or other web-enabled software.
Web development Refers to the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet (World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network). This can include Web design, web content development, client liaison, client-side/server-side scripting, web server and network security configuration, and e-commerce development. However, among web professionals, "web development" usually refers to the main non-design aspects of building web sites: writing markup and coding. Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, or social network services.
World Wide Web Consortium Main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. It is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web. Known by its acronym W3C.
XHTML See Extensible HyperText Markup Language.
XML See Extensible Markup Language.
Zend Engine Open source scripting engine (a Virtual Machine) commonly known for the important role it plays in the web automation language PHP.Thanks for posting this!
I would only mention that your definition is incomplete for this -
Contextual selector A type of Style Sheet Selector that
and that it's most often referred to now as a Descendent selector, not a contextual selector. It's basically the same as the Compound selector that you have already defined.... -
Problem Installing Adobe CS 5.5 Web Design Premium, Error Code 6
I just purchased Adobe CS 5.5 Web Design Premium. I've attempted installing it about a half dozen times now, maybe more. I am getting variations of "Error Code 6".
I have been through steps 1-3 of this page: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/errors-exit-code-6-exit.html but it hasn't helped (the error log is slightly different, but that's about it).
I have attempted to look at the descriptions, but many of the errors in my log summary were not on the list of errors here: http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/installation-launch-log-errors-creative.html - however of the ones that were, I found this entry:
DF012 Installation source path does not exist: <path>
The installation files are corrupted.
Reextract or copy the contents of the installer.
Which is discouraging and confusing to me, as I have tried installation both from my new, just opened CDs and by downloading the installation files from here: http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cs5-5-direct-download-links.html.
I'm not sure what my next step should be to try.
Here's the log information (I deleted a lot of the space between lines (paragraph marks), if that is somehow important, I can paste it here without conserving space):
Exit Code: 6
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
- 0 fatal error(s), 4 error(s), 8 warning(s)
----------- Payload: {CFA46C39-C539-4BE9-9364-495003C714AD} Adobe SwitchBoard 2.0 2.0.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF029: ARKServiceControl::StartService: Service not started/stopped SwitchBoard. Current State: 0 Exit Code: 0 Service Specific Exit Code: 0(Seq 1)
----------- Payload: {2EE4F060-CEE6-4002-AA8B-91B791541767} Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF035: CreateAlias:Icon file does not exist at C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Utilities - CS5.5\Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6\windows\pb_app.icofile:\\\C:\PIXELB~1\source\winwood\Staging 0X1.AE9C02P-1022rea\windows\pb_app.ico42178f80493091e8e552c84a2897e9da68fce32_32_f8049309 1e8e552c84a2897e9da68fce for icon C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Adobe Web Premium CS5.5\Adobe Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6.lnk with target C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Utilities - CS5.5\Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6\Pixel Bender Toolkit.exe(Seq 89)
----------- Payload: {7202D4A7-F7E6-4e7a-B77D-7B1C4E8B5CA6} Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX 10.0.0.0 -----------
ERROR: Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action NewCustomAction1, location: C:\Users\jlp\AppData\Local\Temp\InstallAX.exe, command: -install activex -msi
ERROR: Install MSI payload failed with error: 1603 - Fatal error during installation.
MSI Error message: Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action NewCustomAction1, location: C:\Users\jlp\AppData\Local\Temp\InstallAX.exe, command: -install activex -msi
----------- Payload: {47CE893F-A0FF-4094-AA16-5209AEA7C7E0} Firefox Plugin CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeContribute6.1-FFPlugin\OEM(Seq 32)
----------- Payload: {208DE3D5-541C-41B0-8595-7A608A6E4306} IE Plugin CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeContribute6.1-IEPlugin\OEM(Seq 26)
----------- Payload: {4A4F91EA-5951-4C5C-B911-027D802817EB} Office Plugin CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeContribute6.1-OfficePlugin\OEM(Seq 34)
----------- Payload: {DD309051-FACF-4A5E-87F1-C57154BB3DE8} Adobe Contribute CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeContribute6.1-mul\OEM(Seq 8283)
----------- Payload: {8DADF070-FE60-4899-8EF0-4242E7702F7D} Adobe Fireworks CS5.1 11.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeFireworks11.1.0All\OEM(Seq 1215)
----------- Payload: {1C9D6B02-8B92-4E40-8B22-37D8C95430F0} Adobe Fireworks CS5.1_AdobeFireworks11.1.0en_USLanguagePack 11.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeFireworks11.1.0en_USLanguagePack\OEM(Seq 74)
ERROR: DW050: The following payload errors were found during install:
ERROR: DW050: - Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX: Install failed
Note: references to Drive E are reference to my CD/DVD Drive. I am installing to my C drive and also have a 2nd hard disk D, which shouldn't be involved in the installation.
Also, this is a student edition, but as I've verified myself with Adobe and received my licence key, that shouldn't cause problems as far as I can tell.
My computer is running Windows 7 64-bit. Not sure if there's any other information that is useful in solving this issue.
Thanks for your help!_Forge_ there a couple different technical documents relevant to the errors you are currently experiencing. I would recommend reviewing Error "1721 [or 1722]: There is a problem with this...package" when installing | CS4 | Windows - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-1721-or-1722-problem.html and Error 1603 | Install | CS5 products - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-1603-install-cs5-products.html.
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Best practice in dreamweaver based web design
Hi DW Gurus
I have been learning dreamweaver at work and at home for a while now and I am very interested in getting some details about best practices.
I am aware that my designs are still quite simple and don't expand dreamweaver anyway near its abilities, however as a novice I am sticking with DW CS4 and trying to developing foundation skills before trying to move on to greater adventures in web design. My dream is to eventually leave my employer and start my own freelance design business that I can manage while I am travelling in SE Asia (yeah I know - dream on .....). I am saving for my CS4 master suite license - my current one belongs to my employer.
In particular I have just started to do some free design a community organisation - I am trying to develop a portfolio of sites that I can show new clients (with money) what they could expect for their investments.
I am interested in getting some ideas about work flows - design standards - whether designers use the dreamweaver layouts - whether to code or to use the WYSIWYG.
Anyone care to share how they plan and go about their design work.
In my past life I was a SQL developer and a C#.net programmer - in those feilds there are standards for code and applications . Are there industry standards that would point to good or better designing?
Thanks for your time and interest in my topic,
Respect,
DougThe first thing you need to learn is html and css, without knowing the programming language will only make DW a hard tool to use. You need to learn coding to WC3 standards.
FREE HTML & CSS Tutorials - http://w3schools.com/
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css
http://reference.sitepoint.com/html
Validation tools that you will need to bookmark.
HTML Validator - http://validator.w3.org
CSS Validator - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Hopefully you use Firefox, and if you do, the web developer toolbar is essential:
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
Yes, you can rely somewhat on DW's layout mode (or what features are left of it), but this will only lead to problems when it comes time to troubleshoot any problem pages that do not render correctly across the various browsers.
A paying client will expect a well designed, fully functional website and you need to have the programming skills to accomplish this for them.
Not sure how far advanced you are but the Adobe site has quite a few CSS based tutorials - and I would strongly urge you to go through the series listed below - to get up to speed on the correct way to lay out a page.
Creating your first website (series)
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WS42d4a1c0291fbe4e59147ede1232ff9686c-8 000.html
LIST OF CSS TUTORIALS ON ADOBE SITE:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/css.html
If you use Fireworks as a tool to create your layouts, then the following tutorial may be of benefit:
TAKING FIREWORKS COMP TO DREAMWEAVER:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt1.html
Good luck in your future endeavours
Nadia
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Mac or pc for dreamweaver web design?
So just wondering anyone better to do this would think pc
since most users visiting the site are pc based? Im using at work a
mac for designing a new website using cs3, I test the files on a
outdated pc to see how the files work and look....... I cant upload
anything since when its done i have to pass the files to the owner
to upload the pages since im not allowed access to it.....Sage advice. I would concur.
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"Jeff" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have a MAC (G5 dual 2.3 MHz Power PC) which I bought
primarily to run
>Final Cut Pro. This machine also has dreamweaver CS2
installed but I rarely
>use it for web development.
> My other computer is a core2 quad 28.3 MHz PC. Where I
do 99% of my web
> design using Dreamweaver CS3.
>
> Both machines are very stable, fast and reliable.
Overall, I prefer
> working on the PC, I feel more comfortable with the PC
because my first
> computer was a PC (286), I have 11 years experience with
the PC platform.
> Also, the PC lets me prview my designs on all the
primary browsers; IE,
> FF, Safari, and Opera
>
> My advice, go with the machine on which you have the
most work experience.
> Its not so much the program you use, its more about how
well adapted you
> are to the platform work flow.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> "takevin" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> news:gib7d2$rap$[email protected]..
>> So just wondering anyone better to do this would
think pc since most
>> users
>> visiting the site are pc based? Im using at work a
mac for designing a
>> new
>> website using cs3, I test the files on a outdated pc
to see how the files
>> work
>> and look....... I cant upload anything since when
its done i have to
>> pass the
>> files to the owner to upload the pages since im not
allowed access to
>> it.....
>>
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Is Dreamweaver the best web design software to learn for an aspiring web designer?
Hi Everyone,
Perhaps difficult to get an unbiased answer to this in a
Dreamweaver forum but I'm sure most of you considered other web
development software before you went with Dreamweaver. Of course
the answer is not as straight forward as just choosing one piece of
software over another. I understand that there isn't really one
piece of software that ticks every box for the web designer. What I
mean is that there isn't one standalone piece of software that's
best for web design (HTML, CSS etc.), graphics and animation etc.
and that's why we have things such as Adobe Creative Suite. Anyway,
sticking to web design and development in the Dreamweaver sense,
would I be correct to advise someone who wants to work in the field
of web design to use Dreamweaver as their main tool? Particularly,
I would be interested to know if Dreamweaver really is the industry
standard as it's important to consider future job prospects.
I hope you understand what I'm asking.
Thanks, in anticipation for your help.
P.S. Has anyone heard of Enterprise Works?LOL... sure!
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>> Really? I've always thought that was what the web
development world meant
>> by "web design", in other words, the overall
process. After all, many of
>> us name our profession using those terms.
>>
>> But I can live with your point of view too. :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
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>> "Murray *ACE*"
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>>> Seems to me that you are using the word in a
larger scope than is
>>> normally used in the web development world. But
I can live with it.
>>> And, I won't hold it against you.... 8)
>>>
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>>> "P@tty Ayers ~ACE"
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>>>> "SnakEyez02"
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>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> John, Murray's point, which I do agree
with is that you cannot
>>>>> "design" with
>>>>> Dreamweaver. Designing is where someone
comes up with the initial
>>>>> graphics for
>>>>> the website.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, but you're using the English word
"design" according to a limited,
>>>> secondary meaning. The word "design" has a
much wider meaning than just
>>>> "making graphics". As you can see from the
standard dictionary
>>>> definition I posted earlier, the primary
meaning of the word "design"
>>>> is "to create, fashion, execute, or
construct according to plan". Using
>>>> this most common meaning of the word,
Dreamweaver most definitely is
>>>> software whose purpose is accurately
described as "web design".
>>>>
>>>> It is true, of course, that Dreamweaver
doesn't create graphics. But
>>>> it's inaccurate to say that it doesn't
design web pages. You can easily
>>>> *design* web pages in Dreamweaver without
ever creating a single
>>>> graphic yourself.
>>>>
>>>> I'm just saying. :-)
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>>>>> Dreamweaver cannot do the graphics
manipulation and it does not
>>>>> have the design tools that are available
in Fireworks and Photoshop.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dreamweaver can place the image slices
into a layout and use CSS for
>>>>> repeating-backgrounds and so forth, but
the process really starts in
>>>>> one of the
>>>>> mentioned applications. So what he is
trying to say is that the page
>>>>> is
>>>>> designed in Fireworks or Photoshop, but
then Dreamweaver turns that
>>>>> design into
>>>>> HTML for a working webpage.
>>>>>
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I wanted to know if I buy the program Photoshop I can draw sites like this www.vmnetwork.ru (not many colors, but glow black and white)? or are needed for this are that the specialized programs, whether training with the program?
<made link unclickable>You can certainly make the graphics for any web site with Photoshop, but it is not a web design tool per se. It's an image editor first and foremost, with some handy features for helping you with web work (e.g., Save for Web & Devices, slicing, fancy text and layer effects, 3D, etc.).
To determine if it's the right software for you, you may want to consider downloading the 30 day free trial of Photoshop CS5.
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshopextended/
There are many, many references and training materials available to help you learn Photoshop. I can't recommend any one in particular, but I'll bet there are those on this forum who can.
-Noel -
What's the best way (book/tutorial) to learn CS4? (web design context)
Hey,
I'm very new to photoshop and have been hunting around the internet looking at tutorials picking up things here and there... but I would really prefer to get a book that contains everything I need to know. Preferably in a 'follow along' style, as opposed to one big reference manual.
Can you recommend a good book (or if a not a good tutorial series) on using CS4? I'm most interested in using PhotoShop for web design. While I'm not interested in using DreamWeaver etc, I just want to learn how to make simple things for web design. Buttons. Banners. Etc.Step by step using basic tools and steps. Then some harder things tossed in but easy to master. Plus you can play with the settings to see different results.
PS CS4 The missing Manual is good too and really digs deep. -
Can you share any insights about computing, web surfing or
web design
for the hearing impaired? I started taking sign language
classes years
ago, though I don't remember much. However, I'm now working
with several
deaf individuals, and I've begun teaching myself sign
language, using
online tutorials.
One thing I'm curious about: How do IT terms translate into
sign
language? Is there an online reference that explains how to
sign "Mac,"
"Microsoft," "PHP," etc.? Or do people just spell these
things out?
Thanks.> Is there an online reference that explains how to sign
"Mac,"
Thumbs up sign.
> "Microsoft,"
Middle finger.
;o)
-Darrel -
New to web design - learn Dreamweaver first?
Greetings to the Dreamweaver community.
After 30 years in print design, I've finally made a decision to learn a little something about web design. With that goal in mind, when I updgraded to CS6, I bought the "CS6 Design and Web Premium" package. The package includes Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash Pro. But I'm a little confused where to start.
I always buy the Adobe "Classroom in a Book" series to learn the basics or new aspects of Adobe products. All three apps have CIB counterparts and I'm thinking that I will but the Dreamweaver CIB first, then Fireworks, and then Flash Pro?
So what am asking is... is this the right direction? I notice on some discussion boards that some use Fireworks more than Dreamweaver: I just want to make sure I'm on the right path.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
ClintonWelcome to the DW community, Clinton!
30 years - that is some real experience you've got up your sleeve!
Web Design, okay, it works this way. It has 2 parts - for starters:
Design/ Mockup/ Layout/ Wireframe/ UI (different people refer to this differently) - but the end goal is the same - to create the 'design', per se, that your site is going to look like
Development/ Slicing/ Compositing/ CSSing/ PSD - CSS (again, different references) - making the 'design' you've made in an application like Photoshop or Fireworks to be 'web-friendly' - in other words, making it .html and .css files that are the 'core' elements for a website
Most web designers (including me) use Photoshop to create design cuts (PSD files) that we send back and forth a million times to the client to get them approved. Then, 'slice' some key elements such as backgrounds, boxes, etc... Then open Dreamweaver, write the 'markup' - which is 'what' you want to display on your website (content, tables, boxes, widgets, snippets, etc..). Then, 'style' the website using 'CSS' - to match it to the 'PSD' that the client had approved.
This is it - I don't know if I could've put it any shorter!
CSS - Cascading Style Sheet - it is a piece of code that instructs web browsers how your website has to be displayed. Height, spacing, margins, width, colors, display-type, etc... With the birth of CSS-3, things are even more easier. A few key things that CSS-3 can do are lets say, Gradients, rounded-edges, etc.. (for which you had to use an actual .png or .jpg image in CSS-2). Now, CSS-3 can give you the exact same effect with no use of an image.
HTML - Now that HTML5 is quickly replacing older web standards, you've decided to start your 'web journey' at the right time, I'd say. HTML5 has endless possibilites for creating 'responsive' web design - responsive meaning one design, multi-devices - for desktops, tablets & mobile phones.
With all that said, Dreamweaver CS6 has some great tools for HTML5 standards such as 'Fluid Grid Layout' - with which you create 1 design, code 3 different CSS documents and BAM - your website will be optimized for all 3 devices.
Fireworks - Definitely usable for web design. Fireworks CS6 also has some great tools such as 'CSS Generator' that gives you the CSS code for a selected design element - in other words, design it in Fireworks, hover over it, Fireworks will generate the CSS code for you.
jQuery - You should look this up - has some great 'plugins' that you can use in your website design/ development. Now that 'Flash' is kind of dead (modern handhelds don't support Flash), jQuery is your friend. Best part is it is fully open-source.
The next step - Dynamic websites - As the name suggests, you can get into building more 'interactive' websites - like a shopping cart, etc... later on once you get a proper hang of some basic HTML & CSS. And if you decide to use jQuery, you'll also get a hang of JavaScripting - which is critical to build interactive websites as you progress.
You can take a look at this video on Youtube. I know it doesn't have too many views. But, I personally feel it is a good place for you begin with Fireworks - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJmyYfNu1M
All this maybe going a little over your head right now - since you're just starting up. But, feel free to post questions as and when you have one and we'll be happy to help you! The world needs more web designers/ developers after all!
All the best.
-ST -
Hi to all, i am new here in kuler and new to web design. I have a website about PS3 and now i am in redesign process of whole site, i want to ask you what will be the best color variation for my site since you are more experts in designing. my sites url is www.ps3world.gr and i would love to hear to your suggestions, my color picks are: R:0 G:0 B:0 , R:177 G:1 B: 3, R:135 G:187 B:1, and finally R:2 G:0 B:189 .
Hey dippetas,
Kuler can help you to find color combinations that you like, you might try going to http://kuler.adobe.com/
and entering some of the RGB values you listed as the base color and then selecting rules to find variations or related colors based on where they fall on the color wheel. Here are some screen shots for reference and I drew red boxes around some of the areas I referenced.
Cool site, good luck
-Dave
(click pictures to view larger)
Also, here is a link to the Kuler help which might also be useful for you.
http://kuler.adobe.com/links/kuler_help.html -
Unofficial Web Start/JNLP FAQ updated
Hi,
I updated and added new entries to the Unofficial FAQ:
* Is Web Start available for Macintosh?
* Does Web Start support downloading jars using FTP?
* How can I start Web Start's app manager (aka Web Start Player) automatically at boot time/restart time?
* How can I start Web Start's app manager from a web page?
* How can I tell Web Start to use either a hotspot or classic virtual machine?
* How can I connect to a database?
* How can I reference a Java Help helpset?
* How can I change the proxy configuration in javaws.cfg?
* How can I retrieve the proxy settings from Web Start?
* How can I call other programs or shell scripts in Java?
* How can I pass dynamic command line arguments to Web Start on the command line?
* Why doesn't my app run under Web Start?
Thanks to everyone for posting their insights.
Note, that I cannot answer your individual questions.
Please, post your questions on Sun's forum instead of mailing me.
Any corrections or suggestions, however, are more than welcome, please send them to [email protected]
- Gerald Bauer
PS: Here is the Unofficial Web Start/JNLP FAQ link just in case:
http://www.vamphq.com/jwsfaq.htmlHi,
I updated and added new entries to the Unofficial FAQ. Here is this months line up. New Entries:
* How can I list all resources in a jar?
* How can I talk to servlets from my Web Start app?
* How can I use Web Start and RMI together?
* How can I detect if my app is offline?
* Can I use Web Start to deploy server apps?
* Can I use Web Start to deploy apps to mobile devices (J2ME)?
* Why can't I start Web Start's app manager under Windows? Why does the app manager's preferences dialog fail to appear?
* Why doesn't Web Start reprompt for proxy logins?
* Can Web Start handle multiple XML parsers at once?
Updated Entries:
* How can I add JNLP MIME-types to my ISP's Apache Web Server?
* Is Web Start available for Macintosh?
* How can I connect to a database?
The Unofficial Java Web Start/JNLP FAQ is located at
http://www.vamphq.com/jwsfaq.html
A free 40 page pdf booklet is available as well for offline consumption and printing.
As always thanks to everyone for posting their insights.
- Gerald Bauer -
Do you know if it exists a .pdf-file for Web Design API(7.0)?
I found Web Design API for 7.0 at
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/29/4d15422ecce02ce10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
but I can´t find it as pdf-file.
I found "Web API Reference" for 3.5 as pdf, but I want it for 7.0
/Mikeit is available on the service marketplace....
https://websmp101.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER_OBJECT=011000358700004470562006E
Arun -
sorry cant find the job forum!
I need a web designer to design a 4 page website, one
containing a list of clients with different samples of work for
each client. Any one intrested?Use a newsreader, like Entourage, or Opera, or something
else.
Or, if you must use a browser, go here -
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/index.cfm?forumid=38
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Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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Device Channels vs. Responsive Web Design
When to use Device Channels?
When to use Responsive Web Design?Device channels are used when we want to make our SharePoint site viewable on mobile devices. Though Responsive Web Design also does the same thing by making the design fluid enough to be adjusted based upon the mobile device.
But the major difference here comes when we want a different design on different devices. Like for example, we want that in the desktop version we want to see a banner image on the site home page but in mobile we don't want that banner image to show. Or
lets say you want different mobile devices like Windows Phone, Android etc show different content then we should prefer Device Channels as device channels gives you a flexibility to target specific content of a site on different devices.
With Responsive design you can hide using css but still those components will be there on the screen and hence they will be loaded on the page. But with device channels, using different device channel panel, they will be loaded only for the specific device
only.
Using Device Channels, you can create different master page and different css for different devices and you only have to create one single page which will be flexible enough to render differently on different devices.
For more reference have a look at the following link
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23157.device-channels-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx
Hope that helps.
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