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By: Lensco.be | Blog | A web design app

Lensco.be | Blog | A web design app — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:32:16 +0000

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By: Steven T.

Steven T. — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:44:12 +0000

If you are an Illustrator, i’m sure you have all the good reasons and workarounds to use it for whatever purpose you see fit. Keep in mind neither Illustrator or Photoshop was originally created for web design although they have gotten bloated to include web tools in recent years.

FireWorks was created for web design–just that, and has all the RIGHT tools. You import complex illustrations and bitmap images from the other 2 specialized apps and create your final layout in FW. This way, you have the best of all 3 worlds. Sure it costs more and a bit more hassle this way, but this is the right way to do it professionally.

And sure you can get away doing web sites with a bunch of other cheaper tools as well. Like anything else, there are a million tools and ways to do things–what’s important is what works best for each person and the “smart” way to do it.

By: Lensco

Lensco — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:44:36 +0000

I solve the multiple pages issue by using layers and views. A view in Illustrator is basically a shortcut to turn certain layers on or off in one click. I rarely have to put more than 4 pages in one mock-up, so it works out quite good.

Oldskool slicing can easily be done with crop area’s in Illustrator CS3 — I just never work that way. Using the slice tools to split a big mock-up into a whole bunch of small images was great in the table lay-out era, but today?

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:55:37 +0000

A big disadvantage of Illustrator is that it cannot work with multiple pages. Fireworks supports multiple pages in it’s CS3 version. You can set one template (e.g. the header of your site) and create related pages. You can also work with symbols in the same manner Flash treats symbols.

I wonder how you do the slicing. I guess this is not possible with Illustrator. So you import your designs into Fireworks or Photoshop after the design phase?