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1. Re: Dreamweaver CS3 instead of CS4
Newsgroup_User Mar 2, 2009 3:10 AM (in response to cgrscott)cgrscott wrote:
> I do design for print and every year more and more customers have asked me if I
> would design their web site after I have designed their brochures and other
> collateral. For the last nine years I have never found the time to learn web
> production. I purchased Adobe PageMill and then upgraded to Adobe GoLive 5 but
> I have never found the time to learn these programs. But lately, requests for
> web design have persisted. I downloaded the trial version of Dreamweaver CS4
> but it is too slow on my 1.25 GHz MDD Dual G4, running Mac OS 10.4.11.
>
> So I purchased the Dreamweaver CS3 upgrade, which was still available from
> Officemax.com. I also purchased "Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual" by David
> McFarland. I'll be going through the tutorials on weekends trying to become
> functional with Dreamweaver.
>
> I'll be using it in WYSIWYG mode and not as a HTML coder.
If you don't learn HTML then you will have the most frustrating time of
your life. Web Design IS NOT Graphic Design, they are very different
mediums.
If you don't have time to learn the medium, even the basics, then hook
up with a web designer who you can work with, so that you can watch and
learn. See how they take your print ready artwork and translate it into
a web site.
Dooza
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2. Re: Dreamweaver CS3 instead of CS4
kiusau Mar 2, 2009 3:21 AM (in response to cgrscott)What is your question?
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3. Re: Dreamweaver CS3 instead of CS4
cgrscott Mar 2, 2009 3:36 AM (in response to cgrscott)No question at all but when I share my intent, I get helpful feedback. I have received some already. -
4. Re: Dreamweaver CS3 instead of CS4
Newsgroup_User Mar 2, 2009 6:34 AM (in response to cgrscott)Like kiusau, I'm wondering what your question is. But let me make this
suggestion. If you have no intention to learn HTML and CSS, then you will
be doing your clients a disservice by charging them for a website built
using a WYSIWYG approach. Have you considered partnering with a competent
web developer to provide this service to your customers? This could be a
win-win arrangement for all three of you.
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"cgrscott" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I do design for print and every year more and more customers have asked me
>if I
> would design their web site after I have designed their brochures and
> other
> collateral. For the last nine years I have never found the time to learn
> web
> production. I purchased Adobe PageMill and then upgraded to Adobe GoLive
> 5 but
> I have never found the time to learn these programs. But lately, requests
> for
> web design have persisted. I downloaded the trial version of Dreamweaver
> CS4
> but it is too slow on my 1.25 GHz MDD Dual G4, running Mac OS 10.4.11.
>
> So I purchased the Dreamweaver CS3 upgrade, which was still available from
> Officemax.com. I also purchased "Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual" by
> David
> McFarland. I'll be going through the tutorials on weekends trying to
> become
> functional with Dreamweaver.
>
> I'll be using it in WYSIWYG mode and not as a HTML coder.
>
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5. Dreamweaver CS3 instead of CS4
cgrscott Mar 2, 2009 7:45 AM (in response to Newsgroup_User)Some GoLive users, who have transitioned to Dreamweaver, said that Dreamweaver can be a WYSIWYG program if you want it to be. WYSIWYG would be my starting point and then I can learn more about HTML over time.
Partnershipping with web designers can be a win win situation where you attract more business to the partnering deign-for-print provider and the partnering design-for-web provider. However most of the web designers I have sent my customers to also provide design for print, so I have been wanting to spread out as they have.
Perhaps it's easier for web designers to learn design for print and pre press than the opposite scenario. Perhaps I will be always busy enough just doing design for print. It just seems like I need to start learning web production at some point and Dreamweaver is the main stream tool that Adobe decided to ditch GoLive for.
If reading and using "Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual" leads me into HTML coding, that is fine. -
6. Re: Dreamweaver CS3 instead of CS4
Newsgroup_User Mar 2, 2009 7:58 AM (in response to Newsgroup_User)> If reading and using "Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual" leads me into
> HTML
> coding, that is fine.
Good. It will. That's the right attitude for success, I think.
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"cgrscott" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Some GoLive users, who have transitioned to Dreamweaver, said that
> Dreamweaver
> can be a WYSIWYG program if you want it to be. WYSIWYG would be my
> starting
> point and then I can learn more about HTML over time.
>
> Partnershipping with web designers can be a win win situtation where you
> attract more business to the partnering deign-for-print provider and the
> partnering design-for-web provider. However most of the web designers I
> have
> sent my customers to also provide design for print, so I have been wanting
> to
> spread out as they have.
>
> Perhaps it's easier for web designers to learn design for print and pre
> press
> than the opposite scenario. Perhaps I will be alsways busy enouph just
> doing
> design for print. It just seems like I need to start learning web
> prodiuction
> at some point and Dreamweaver is the main stream tool that Adobe decided
> to
> ditch GoLive for.
>
> If reading and using "Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual" leads me into
> HTML
> coding, that is fine.
>
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7. Re: Dreamweaver CS3 instead of CS4
Newsgroup_User Mar 2, 2009 7:58 AM (in response to Newsgroup_User)And by the way, I do this kind of partnering frequently. And, for what it's
worth, I do not do print at all.
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"cgrscott" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Some GoLive users, who have transitioned to Dreamweaver, said that
> Dreamweaver
> can be a WYSIWYG program if you want it to be. WYSIWYG would be my
> starting
> point and then I can learn more about HTML over time.
>
> Partnershipping with web designers can be a win win situtation where you
> attract more business to the partnering deign-for-print provider and the
> partnering design-for-web provider. However most of the web designers I
> have
> sent my customers to also provide design for print, so I have been wanting
> to
> spread out as they have.
>
> Perhaps it's easier for web designers to learn design for print and pre
> press
> than the opposite scenario. Perhaps I will be alsways busy enouph just
> doing
> design for print. It just seems like I need to start learning web
> prodiuction
> at some point and Dreamweaver is the main stream tool that Adobe decided
> to
> ditch GoLive for.
>
> If reading and using "Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual" leads me into
> HTML
> coding, that is fine.
>
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8. Re: Dreamweaver CS3 instead of CS4
cgrscott Mar 2, 2009 8:32 AM (in response to cgrscott)Everyone's input in this thread has been very helpful. Thanks so much. -
9. Re: Dreamweaver CS3 instead of CS4
Newsgroup_User Mar 2, 2009 2:15 PM (in response to cgrscott)> Everyone's input in this thread has been very helpful. Thanks so much.
Like Murray, my first thought was that there may be an opportunity to work
together in this. I often take other people's designs and do the website for
their design.
I'm also in Australia, not the UK or the USA, so my rates will most likely
be cheaper.
If you are at all interested in a blind partner - where I take no credit for
your design, but simply do it for you - then get back to me. On the other
hand, by doing that you won't learn anything about web design or HTML...
Bruce


