Hello members i would like to ask a question about webdesign and this is my question.

i want to design a website but i am not sure what software to design the template in i will code it in dreamwever but i am not sure wheather to use photo shope to design the template in.

also dn't mean to change the subject here but in dreamwaver how would i go about posistioning the tables where i want them as for some reasson they are very hard to move, unlike forms they are easier but move all over the place on different screen sizes


thanks

Joe

I'm not sure what you intend to achieve by the second question.

But for the first one, I always use Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver for my designs, and it works perfectly.

it's always a good idea to "design" your site on paper first - sketch out how you want it to look, the position of your logo, navigation and content etc. Build your template in Dreamweaver or whatever html editor you want to use, then create site graphics in the image editor of your choice.

i tried sketching it first, but they never come out the way i want, so i gave up and just go with the flow and it seems to work better.

Its similar to sports i guess, its no good watching it, you have to actually play to get better.

Sometimes the ideas you just can't get down on paper :)

Yeah photoshop and dreamweavers a deadly duo for designing

I started out using frontpage, which I actually liked better than dreamweaver, but I had to jump on the bandwagon and switch to dreamweaver because the computers at my art school are apples. Photoshop is perfect for slicing, using the rulers and the guides. But for your second question....
Are you asking how to change the alignment of the table or the size of the table?

i tried sketching it first, but they never come out the way i want, so i gave up and just go with the flow and it seems to work better.

Its similar to sports i guess, its no good watching it, you have to actually play to get better.

Yes I agree with the above post, you need to dirty your hands and keep working on what you plan to do on paper first, then start making it a reality and if it sucks, try again and maybe you will do better the next time round. Most important don't give up!

Yeah, like sports or anything you do the first time it's never perfect, only practice makes perfect in whatever you do.

why dont you use CSS instead of tables?
your can position them a lot better.


or in Dreamweaver design and set out everything in Layers and then convert them to Tables using the convert option if you need tables

why dont you use CSS instead of tables?
your can position them a lot better.
CSS is hard for newbie if he/she doesn't know HTML. Best start to learn HTML then CSS - it'll be easier. CSS is known as CSS styling, together with XHTML (tableless)

Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver

are there any free guides online discussing how to use photoshop for webdesign? Iwould like to use photoshop w/ dreamweaver, however don't know much about using photoshop for web design purposes.

Whichever the software you are using, a knowledge of HTML will be helpful so that you know what you can and what you can't do. Just to see what can be done with tables, I suggest:

A course on HTML tables (http://www.great-web-info.com/pe600.html)

Whichever the software you are using, a knowledge of HTML will be helpful so that you know what you can and what you can't do. Just to see what can be done with tables, I suggest:

A course on HTML tables (http://www.great-web-info.com/pe600.html)

Isn't CSS a better alternative than HTML tables? (Sorry If I have miss-understood, Im a noob). Or, is it only possible to slice images via tables?

Isn't CSS a better alternative than HTML tables? (Sorry If I have miss-understood, Im a noob). Or, is it only possible to slice images via tables?No, you are correct. The course on HTML Tables is a very poor answer. It might have been acceptable 7-8 years ago. Not today.

I fully agree if you are new to web design, then using CSS would be wise but also note that as a designer only knowing how to code in CSS will not make you a good designer, if you suck in designing a website, using any language will not help.

From my experience, a site has all sorts of things incorporated or a mix into it such as Flash, Actionscript, Javascript, PHP, graphics and many more, that CSS on its own will not be able to do it.

A good and experienced designer may need not only CSS, as CSS is just the tip of the iceberg in web designing, there's a whole lot more complicated stuff involved in designing a website that is required which cannot be acomplished using only CSS.

dreamweaver and photoshop

Photoshop - top notch there.

Dreamweaver - powerful do dad.

On the table issue:

You need to become familiar with tables. You don't want to really "move" tables about. Instead - tables work more like tables in Word or Excel. You need to split their cells or merge them and specify their width in static or %.