morgan505
New Member
Hi Guys,
I'm very very new to the whole web design thing but also very very eager to learn more about it, however I have absolutely no coding knowledge really, I've dabbled but literally to change a background colour in dreamweaver or something! Basically I have been doing some designs in Illustrator and Fireworks for a website I want to build for myself, I tried both programs and Fireworks I know had an export as CSS and HTML option if you slice it all up and export it, and it turns into a site on Dreamweaver, but then I tried using Illustrator the other day and found this to be a little simpler as I essentially designed the page as I would like it to be, and saved individual elements as PNG files. I then discovered absolute div tags whcih I found I could pace anywhere on the dreamweaver stage, and then impaort my PNG files to make the site look exaclty how I had it in Illustrator.
Am I missing someting fundamental here? Because so far I have not had to dabble in the code at all, and it seems I can carry on adding my elements to dreamweaver and produce a pretty nice looking site that isn't confined to tables, with nice graphics etc. At what point will I hit a snag here because I'm sure you need some coding knowledge, I thought the process involved preparing the graphics and then coding it all into a site, it seems a bit straighforward so far and im scared!
Could somebody give me a bit of advice as to what the stages are in web design, I have all the Adobe software which I'v just been playing around with and I really enjoy it, I want to leanr more and become better (and more useful) at it!
Thanks!!
I'm very very new to the whole web design thing but also very very eager to learn more about it, however I have absolutely no coding knowledge really, I've dabbled but literally to change a background colour in dreamweaver or something! Basically I have been doing some designs in Illustrator and Fireworks for a website I want to build for myself, I tried both programs and Fireworks I know had an export as CSS and HTML option if you slice it all up and export it, and it turns into a site on Dreamweaver, but then I tried using Illustrator the other day and found this to be a little simpler as I essentially designed the page as I would like it to be, and saved individual elements as PNG files. I then discovered absolute div tags whcih I found I could pace anywhere on the dreamweaver stage, and then impaort my PNG files to make the site look exaclty how I had it in Illustrator.
Am I missing someting fundamental here? Because so far I have not had to dabble in the code at all, and it seems I can carry on adding my elements to dreamweaver and produce a pretty nice looking site that isn't confined to tables, with nice graphics etc. At what point will I hit a snag here because I'm sure you need some coding knowledge, I thought the process involved preparing the graphics and then coding it all into a site, it seems a bit straighforward so far and im scared!
Could somebody give me a bit of advice as to what the stages are in web design, I have all the Adobe software which I'v just been playing around with and I really enjoy it, I want to leanr more and become better (and more useful) at it!
Thanks!!
