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[hradadi]

Hey there,

I’m new in web design, I designed more than 5 web sites now… and I have some issue I would like to ask you guys about:

- What is the right program to use? I’m using Photoshop to design the main template and them dreamweaver. I tried go live, but when I transfer the design from Photoshop, all the background even if its color becomes images! And this will slow the site.
- What is the right program to make a web gallery? I’m using the one in Photoshop but its not useful sine you have to copy all the pages created by Photoshop and redesigning in dreamweaver and this really takes time!
- Is there a problem to use tables?
- Whets the right way to make a menu header? Should I use the template tool in dreamweaver?

here is some of the sites i designed: www.7carwasharabia.com - www.statrading.com - www.emarketpulse.com

[Lastcrime]

First off if your going to use a background colour instead of an image make it a colour in dreamweaver not an image, that will resolve your bandwith issue for the background image, Tables are mainly for getting started once you get more use to coding you should probly start using css.

If you designed and coded these sites your not a beginner because these sites are pretty advanced they have flash in them and deffinately arn't beginner sites.

[Archangel]

There is no "right" program to use. The best programs to use for web design are the ones you are used to and catch on to quickly. Whether that be Photoshop, GIMP, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Homesite, AceHTML, etc. There are a ton of programs out there. Personally I mainly use Photoshop and Dreamweaver, not because they are the "right" programs, but b/c they are what I know.

Is there a problem using tables? I LOVE this question! My answer would be yes...and no. Although five years ago nearly everyone used tables for their website layouts, times have changed and apparently they are no longer the "norm". I would recommend doing some searches for tables vs. css layouts and reading up. No matter what anyone says (since I'm right of course!) the biggest issue I've read about with tables is having all that extra code in there could stop spiders from crawling good content on your site as they only crawl a certain amount before moving on. There has also been talk about tables loading slower than css but that's not really an issue b/c the speed differences are so minimal (we're talking miliseconds here).

So I'll tell you what I tell everyone else. I think it is important to learn how to code layouts in CSS. But the single most important thing when coding a layout is that a website look exactly the same (i.e. how it is supposed to look) on every browser. Some clients will only want CSS layouts, some won't care and many others won't have a clue what you're talking about

[SatanicPenguins]

Finally someone who isn't like "if you use tables KITTENS WILL DIEEE!" lol

Photoshop's good to make websites in, Itll slice it up for u in tables(css as well if u set it to)
But, you mine as well start off on the right foot coding with css

[meshhome]

I'll show you a sites... http://myacetemplates.net/ Here you can download lots of templats. But I'm not sure, that it'll be helpful or not bez of you are useing photoshops... Though just look at it!

[Brunty]

Tables are also bad because they cause problems with accessibility for disabled users / viewers - text browsers and screen readers can have big problems with reading layouts coded with tables.

However tables are still useful...for tabular data *surprise surprise*.

So yes you can use them, but no you shouldn't for layouts.

[hendrikz]

I use Notepad to code anything. I use Photoshop 7.0 for my GFX too, works well. Tables is what I started out with but then I went to CSS, using div's and such. Makes coding look so much cleaner, and organized.