Professional website building programs?

erifdekciw

erifdekciw

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Im sick of low quality designers that either do a terrible job of taking my details and porting it to a website or they just suck overall who have no idea about how a landing page should be structured.

So now im looking for a do it all program that i can literally draw what i want in photoshop or what ever and have it ported over to a website and have all the coding done for me.

I've heard and seen fireworks from adobe and thats kinda what i want but from what i've seen, fireworks is pretty limited and you still have to mess around with stuff like splicing.

That might be required for all these programs but i just wanna know if theres anything that can do it with minimal effort since im not the best coder or expert in shit like photoshop tools.

or does anyone use a really good site builder? I know there noobish but landing pages aren't exactly thousand dollar designs. I just need something i can mold my website with how i want it to look and not have to code for 2 hours trying to align shit perfectly so it looks good so i can pump out landers and test them.
 


Actually the tool you're looking for is already built into Photoshop.

Just use the slice tool to cut up your image and then File>Save for Web and Devices

Presto
 
I'm really enjoying Xara webdesigner. It takes care of graphics right within the html editor and can create some really nice and slick landers. For more advanced programming stuff you'll need to use another editor such as Dreamweaver, but Xara does an excellent job on the graphics, look and feel stuff.
 
If you don't have the css/html skills you can do some fast 'cheats' with dreamweaver and photoshop.

Make your design in photoshop.

Slice it up and export as html.

Use layers in dreamweaver to put your text where you want it.

Not exactly html compliant but works for landers.

Has xara improved that much? I used it years ago and it was horrible.

If you really are technically challenged try something like xsitepro. I think you could train your dog to use it with enough treats. Your landers will all look like cheesy sales letters though.
 
stmadeveloper said:
Has xara improved that much? I used it years ago and it was horrible.
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In a word - yes.

I used Xara Webstyle for a long time which was ok but you had to strip out the inline CSS and create external CSS files etc.

Xara Webdesigner is light years ahead of Webstyle - It creates whole pages rather than just graphics. Very nice! See if there is a trial available - if not, just let me know and I'll do a quick screen cap vid so you can see it in action.
 
If your web designing skills suck balls - I'd recommend going in for XSitePro

However, if you can design OK web pages in Photoshop - or atleast have the creativity to fuse together a few old templates and create good looking templates out of them, you might wanna give MediaLab :: SiteGrinder 3 :: Home a try :)
 
Go to lynda.com and learn some photoshop/dreamweaver for $25 or go to lpdesigner.com . Some people say learn to hand-code. In my opinion it's good to learn the basics and have more control but why not use dreamweaver and save time?

Lynda.com is really good for it though. You can either buy it or torrent it if you want... Sometimes the teacher has an annoying gay lisp voice that just drives you nuts so I'd say get an ebook or someshit too
 
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