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1. Re: Using InDesign CS4 to build website.
(Timothy_Foolery®) Oct 15, 2008 9:23 AM (in response to Dirk Williams)I just vomited into my mouth a little. -
2. Re: Using InDesign CS4 to build website.
Dirk Williams Oct 15, 2008 9:34 AM (in response to Dirk Williams)Why is that, Tim? You probably didn't even look at it. -
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Kath-H Oct 15, 2008 10:15 AM (in response to Dirk Williams)>I can't believe how dead it is in here.
People assume their copy of Golive has stopped working and the *have* to move to Dreamweaver. Me, I'm happy with GL CS2 plus increasing amounts of hand-coding. -
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Jim or Marion Jordan Oct 15, 2008 10:17 AM (in response to Dirk Williams)SWF features in InDesign are apparently to match QuarkXPress' offering and to take advantage of interactive technology that has been growing in InDesign for years.
The vomit may come (at least in my throat) from thinking that the web will be further littered with Flash files from unqualified designers. What made the web great is the ability to locate info quickly and present it in an accessible manner. SWF harms that notion. -
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(Martin-S) Oct 15, 2008 12:10 PM (in response to Jim or Marion Jordan)In article <59b6c094.3@webcrossing.la2eafNXanI>,
Jim_Jordan@adobeforums.com wrote:
> SWF features in InDesign are apparently to match QuarkXPress' offering and to
> take advantage of interactive technology that has been growing in InDesign
> for years.
Just like one can publish web pages with M$ Word ;-)
I can see the use for the feature for whipping up a quick, one-off job,
but it grieves me to see a great layout application burdened with such
nonsense.
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6. Re: Using InDesign CS4 to build website.
Dirk Williams Oct 15, 2008 12:16 PM (in response to Dirk Williams)"SWF harms that notion."
I wasn't thinking this would be for people that build website for a living. I don't do website for a living. I more in the still photography and video. It's a good option for me do to the fact I don't build/need, a complex website, just sites to throw my portfolio up on. My main home page can still be built in GL or DW, after that it's just photos and videos.
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7. Re: Using InDesign CS4 to build website.
Jim or Marion Jordan Oct 15, 2008 1:02 PM (in response to Dirk Williams)I'm not against ID having more features (the more the merrier) and I'm certainly looking forward to getting my hands dirty with CS4. I'm just a skeptic after seeing how QuarkXPress has handled this limited market for their past couple releases. We've had interactivity in page layout apps for some time but few make good use of it. We could place a QT movie and navigation links in a PDF file generated from Pagemaker a decade ago. Where are all the interactive PDF files that ID has been capable of producing for so long?
The ability to pass on XFL to a web designer definitely sounds appealing. -
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Nini Tjäder Oct 15, 2008 1:04 PM (in response to Dirk Williams)The feature (to create Flash content from InDesign CS4) is not a feature to build entire websites. It is a feature to build additional content to add to a regularly built website and for that it is actually great. But you do not build entire sites from it. NO site should be Flash only if you want all visitors to be welcome. The new features in Bridge CS4 to build web galleries directly in Bridge (Flash based or not) are also very good.


