My friend and I used to design sites for fun, about 4-5 years ago... We both want to get back into it, but times have changed SO much lately, and it seems people want more than just HTML design... My question is, how is it done? I've seen places like www.***************.com sell .psd files? I don't understand what the .psd files are for.... I know its the photoshop file, but who wants to buy an image of the site without all the code inside? You have to edit the image... Or is it just a background image that people edit, then put the text on top of it through textpad, or an html editor?

Thanks for the help in advanced.

Censorship! **************.com = *************** .com

They sell psd files really cheap and they leave the slicing up to you. IMO, FireWorks is the easiest program to use to convert it into html file.

Slicing/splicing:
Means cutting up a large image into smaller images/tables.

Thanks for the quick response, but I have another question.... Where in gods name do they get all those good images (For like the background, foreground, ect.) ?

Here are some places to try:

http://rubberball.com
http://istockphoto.com
http://photodisc.com
http://imagestock.com

You can look to see if they have some "free" images or take a trial run on the ones that offer it.

Enjoy.

BTW - you can also do a search on google using - royalty free images.

:stickout:

Thanks, I'll try to design a template tonight... I'm just a bit nervous, what about resolutions? Where would I sell until I get enough money to buy a domain and advertisers? What needs to be done to the image before I can sell it? Any template designers free on aim or msn? I have a few questions I'd like to ask someone personally, PM me if you can help.


Thanks again for this, it really helped.

Hmm... I used to know of this site, you sign up and auction off your designs..... Anyone know of it?

Also, I'd like to talk to someone about creating designs...

After looking through lots and lots of PSP tutorials... I've come to a conclusion..... How in gods name do you make one design work for every resolution!?

Anyone out there that can help me? I think I've figured out everything.... Minus the resolutions, how do you keep everything fit for 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200, 2024(?)x1600(?)

I could really use some help here... Creating 6+ different versions that look exactly the same, is NOT easy.

There are 2 options:

1. Make the site/template a fixed width so that no matter what the resolution is, the table will stay at something like 750 pixels wide.

An example of this can be seen on www.yahoo.com where the site stays central in the middle of the browser at the same width (no matter how wide the res is).

2. Make the table a % width. This means that as resolutions get larger, the width of the site/template stretches with it.

An example of this can be seen on this forum where the table is 98% (ish) of the page. Try resizing your browser and you will see it shrink/stretch.

Hope this helps

Thanks a bunch, I was thinking about how some sites never changed their size, but didn't know how they did it.

Lets say my monitor is 1024x768 and I want it to be seen on 800 by 600, I would put this in my source code:

<SCRIPT>
window.resizeTo(800,600);
</SCRIPT>

Anyone out there that can help me? I think I've figured out everything.... Minus the resolutions, how do you keep everything fit for 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200, 2024(?)x1600(?)

Use this tool to preview your webpages to test it in various resolutions:

http://www.wpdfd.com/restest.htm