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Re: Amazing Website Designs - How do they do this?

Hi there,

How you doing?

I hope your freelings towards the funeral worked themselves out.

Question...

Does your designer have a portfolio I can take a look at?

Thanks & have a great wknd.



Michelle


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I am a coder an not an artist, but that is why I work with a graphic designer! :cheesy:

Anyways, CSS (Cascadign Style Sheets) are very powerful and that is what I use for formating and positioning. It is a lot easier than table layouts and you can do alot more. I have the graphic artist create an image in Photoshop, then I have at it. I slice the image up, create the DIVs, position them with CSS, and then you have a beautiful site.

In my opinion, the toughest part is creating a nice design and that is why I use an graphic artist.

I have attached one of the sites you had with some of the divs I would create. The neat thing about CSS is that the DIVs can overlap, like for the Nav bar.
http://www.rcswebdesign.com/css.jpg

Let me know if that helps,
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She sure does. What type of work are you most interested in? Print, web, etc... Let me know what you are looking for and we will get you some examples. you can email me at: jason at rcswebdesign.com

Thanks,

Jason
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Hi there,

How you doing?

I hope your freelings towards the funeral worked themselves out.

Question...

Does your designer have a portfolio I can take a look at?

Thanks & have a great wknd.



Michelle
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All I know is that fireworks and photoshop DOES has it similarities. But if your looking for hardcore extentions to enhance your Fireworks then photoshop, then FW is the best way. But if your lookingto make somehting alittle more complicated then I would suggest PS(photoshop). Also alot of graphics artists uses FlashMX with both photoshop and or fireworks.
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DaveSW - Thanks again for the tutorial, and info. I am starting to get the concept, but I am having an issue with a particular CSS element. backgroun-position. For each value position what is the order?

Meaning if you go background-position: 0 100px 200px 300px; how do you know what value is used in what property? i.e. top, left, etc!

I just can't seem to figure out a reasoning. Alphabetical, or Logical for the ordering??

Thanks!
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No worries I figured out how this works now.

Thanks to a Learning Lynda.com Tid Bit!
  background-position: 280px 0; /* how does this work?  by X & Y {Left & Down) */
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lol
Whenever I have a problem like that I head over to the CSS Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/

If you scroll down that page you get to the table of contents.
Appendix F, the full property table, is very useful if you need to know what CSS properties you can use, or you've forgotten the exact wording of it.
Other than that you can look up specific properties in the rest of the spec.

Hope that helps
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I been having trouble with slicing..Its kinda weird when I slice..things dont match properly
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Really,to be truthful I am in the very darkest part of the darkness concerning this web designing.Everything sounds Greek to me.Can somebody help me out?I am willing to be a good student and pay atention to my tutor.I want to learn how to design the pages, with what package ( I have photoshop in my software collections though I know not how to use it) and every other thing I may require. Please members help me to grow. Thanks to you all.
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Quote originally posted by wilmabundus ...
Really,to be truthful I am in the very darkest part of the darkness concerning this web designing.Everything sounds Greek to me.Can somebody help me out?I am willing to be a good student and pay atention to my tutor.I want to learn how to design the pages, with what package ( I have photoshop in my software collections though I know not how to use it) and every other thing I may require. Please members help me to grow. Thanks to you all.
Wilmabundus
I'd love to help -- where are you at? What questions do you have?

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I can help also. What program are you using?
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