We were advised by Leigh to create our website in Photoshop or Illustrator and then import each page and all its separate layers into Flash Catalyst (a new piece of software which will be in CS5; can be downloaded for free on the adobe website). Flash Catalyst can be used to create our entire website. Leigh explained how we would also be able to use any typeface within our website as Adobe have sold the rights/software to search engines like Google and Yahoo which can read text on any website, even if its in Flash; we don’t need Meta tags!
People asked if this was cheating or going the wrong way about creating our websites; Leigh explained that in industry a designer does not create an entire website by there self. There are web designers who create the layout and make the site aesthetically pleasing; then there are the coders, who create all the code for the website and actually make it work. I know for a fact that I would never want to become a coder.
By Thursday we have to have put together a working site map, showing forwards and backwards steps and our initial design for our entire website, that includes home page, contact page, about page etc.
I feel as though a massive weight has been taken off my shoulders after Leigh’s Flash session. The Dreamweaver sessions we have been having with Neil are good and I’ve understood them, but for the work and effort you put in the results aren’t anywhere near that of Flash catalyst. I don’t want to spend days trying understand and learn Dreamweaver and code to a high standard, when I could be using that time to improve the appearance of my overall website.
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