Imageready?

[Empty Promis3s]

I'm sitting here arguing with a friend abotu wether people use imageready. He is sitting here telling me almost all web programs use imageready to code their layouts and that nobody codes them by hand. I disagreed because I have always been told imageready is terrible code and should never be used. I know nothing about coding so honestly I wouldn't know but I Know that imageready is not used by everyone.

So basically my question is how do you code your layouts?

 

[Palyriot]

Your friend is incredibly wrong. I only code in Notepad and the majority of the people that make websites occasionally make them with some text editor. Infact, I've never even heard of someone making layouts in imageready.

 

[cwnt]

I design my layouts in Photoshop, then flatten the image, cut out the bits I need (such as logos, menus, etc), save those as separate images, then code the layout by hand. Nobody I know uses Imageready to code their layouts, I didn't even know it was possible :P

 

[Cooper]

I design my layouts in Photoshop, then flatten the image, cut out the bits I need (such as logos, menus, etc), save those as separate images, then code the layout by hand. Nobody I know uses Imageready to code their layouts, I didn't even know it was possible :P

That’s exactly the same as what I do. I've used imageready once or twice to slice a layout, but never used the code it's output for the final product.

 

[cwnt]

I've never even tried it in Imageready, I wouldn't have any idea where to start. The only thing I have used Imageready for, in the past, is animating a few small images, or little parts of layouts.

 

[yeppers]

Hey Empty Promis3s,

I'm afraid your friend is 110% wrong .

I've always coded my layouts by hand. ImageReady outputs the html as badly constructed tables which load up crazily on the internet, all the tables load one by one, out of place, and by the time the html has downloaded, they all spring back together where they should be. - Not the best way to do it .

It depends on the person I suppose, a real web designer would probably do it by hand. Whereas people who are doing it for their own personal website and don't know much about it at all probably use a program like imageready or frontpage to code their designs.

All the best,
Rhett.

 

[Dan]

I do exactly what hairyfreak does.

I never use ImageReady. Ever.

.. and why would you slice in that anyways? You can slice in Photoshop.

 

[sunken]

Another vote for the by hand method. The HTML editors are notorious for really bad code. After spending years fixing others, I just do it myself.