Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop Interaction

We all know that Adobe are very successful when it comes to making sure their different applications interact smoothly with each-other. But how about the Interaction between Dreamweaver and Photoshop?

Let's take a look!



There are a number of different ways to create Websites. While some designers may choose to hand draw a concept and then start coding HTML, others may want to take a more graphical approach to the design and layout.

Interface Design

This is the most critical part of the whole design process. The design of your interface is very important for usability. You've probably heard it a thousand times, but the old saying is true: if your visitors can't find all your content, or they're confused by your layout, they really are only one click away from leaving your site.

Planning Ahead

With any new design, you must plan ahead. This will enable you to adapt to any changes that arise quickly and easily. For example, imagine you wanted to add another section to your Website. Does the navigation of your site allow for this, or will it entail a complete redesign? If you're in the latter category, expect to waste time and money -- resources that can easily be saved if you design your site layout well the first time.

It's important to imagine where you'd like to be in the future. Websites are like any other business: you must change with the times.

An obvious web design principle is to communicate a clear message with professional, integrative design using the world’s most popular Web design combination--Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

The idea is to build web sites that are both well-designed and highly functional.

Take standard web page elements--such as navigation bars and content areas--and create a unique look based on the needs of your client/target audience and the capacity of your own imagination.

With a balance of sound technical knowledge and web design theory, effective communication between software (should you choose to design this way of course!) will result in the creation of visually appealing and technically effective professional Web sites.

Slicing

Although you can use any graphics software to create your image, I recommend Photoshop. Packaged with this program is ImageReady, which you can use to save images for the Web, create gif animations, and slice up Photoshop images.

Now, "slicing" means that we'll take your original page layout image, and make smaller individual images out of it, which you can then insert into an HTML table.