Fireworks to HTML tables sounds like total proprietary goo. You need fresh air! Suggest you buy Microsoft Expression Web. It's more open source than Microsoft (although some Redmond extensions are built in). It has rock solid basic css templates to get you started. Maybe "foundation" is a better description than "basic". What I find nice about EW is that you can incorporate many of your own disc resources into working designs. Don't expect miracles. There are still some compatibility issues drifting everywhere. All those issues are global and have nothing to do with EW. The biggest learning curve is getting a feel for how different browsers view your work. Generallly, clean code sparks little controversy. Far less problematic than say Dreamweaver or FrontPage design outputs. My fav online resource is www.w3schools.org where you get detailed tabled breakdowns of how elements, attributes and values are handled by different browser versions. This helps us to intuit what accessibility we will sacrifice to allow what new functionality. That puts us in control of the press process, so to speak. Of course, you'll want to keep a few browsers installed on your system so you can test your EW designs in various environments. The Firefox IE7 combo is pretty popular. Familiarity tends, however, to inspire creativity. Basic css is fairly universal. As a site grows and functionality is added in, more tweaking is required. Fun! But if you are a developer you won't be able to resist a more philosophical approach to css possibilities with the likes of Stu Nicholls, Russ Weakley, Patrick Griffiths and Eric Meyers. These guys at times are thirsting for a teaching role and can be a big help. Of course Cheryl Wise is there too. In so far as some dev folks have sys prefs, Cheryl is certainly a windows zombie. Stu likes to try to confound Windows coders, which is not going to happen as long as you stick to EW. When you understand his Mac prefs, his code games can be pretty interesting. Printed material from Patrick, Jason Teague and Que can be useful, in a comparative sense. Motivations? Personally, I like exploring liquid layouts, ems and percents. There are certain bugs built into pixels and static dimensions that frankly make putting them together illogical. That being the foundation of how we all stumbled into cyber-together, what can we say? Anyway, good luck.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mission Marketing Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:59 AM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] From Fireworks mockup to table free site I'm accustomed to designing web designs/mockups using Fireworks and exporting to HTML with the heavy use of tables, and finally want to learn to create full CSS sites. I've always resisted learning this approach because of the amount of non-billable time it would take to get up to speed but have finally realized table-based design is out. Are there any resources available for us designers that would help me learn to take a mockup like this (http://www.missionmarketing.com/clients/wolfftanning/wolff-mockup08.htm) and export to HTML/CSS? Thanks for your help. Brett ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
