Hi chaps - almost ready to hand over the cash for FW Pro. I’m a 57 year old broadcast designer, now freelance, mainly working with photoshop and After Effects. The freelance scene now means I have to get back to my original trade designing for print and now, of course, I need some way of producing fairly simple web sites. I’ve tried a few packages over the last year and really haven’t been happy. I’ve struggled with Dreamweaver so much that it ceased to be a pleasure and my own site has become an embarrassment to me because I can’t get my head around redesigning it with Dreamweaver, Joomla seems like a nightmare and others were too prescriptive- I’m hoping FW will spur me into having another go (here’s my existing: rogerburton.co.uk ). My first (I’m sure, of many questions to come) - I’m slowly working my way through all the excellent resources here and will get the manual but a little advice please … are there any areas that are not so obvious I should look at.I’d like to find out about lots of things like; Integration with other s/ware like photoshop ? best workflow ? how to insert video etc. As I said I’ll keep digging but thought some of you guys might give me some pointers. I’m really looking forward to joining the community and am excited about trying out what looks like just what I need to get my web design juices flowing again. Please excuse the long thread - Many thanks Roger
HI roger
The best bit of advice I can sujest is design what you want your sites to look like and then build the site to match your design, and if you do run into problems then just ask as I know there will be loads of people that will be willing to help
Thanks David and Max - how refreshing to get an encouraging response. Over the last 6 months or so when I’ve had problems with Dreamweaver, or whatever, I get replies to post like “…you MUST learn to code before starting to build…” etc etc - I prefer the “Get on with it” approach and try to learn on the way. I guess I’ll do just that. Roger
Freeway will do exactly what it says on the box and that’s always a good start.
Pick something you like the look of on the web and would wish to use as model, post the link here and we can talk you through how you might go about achieving this.
