RE: OT: Fireworks & template flexibility

2006-03-29 Thread Andy Matthews
Honestly, the problem is NOT with the application (although both FW and PS could be MUCH better with their slicing). The issue is that most designers (who don't also know HTML) don't know the best way to slice things. They'll just draw sliecs where they want main images and let the app interpret t

Re: OT: Fireworks & template flexibility

2006-03-28 Thread Casey Dougall
I do what I can to condense the process, get as many elements out of my "Slices" as i can but that I mentioned before is what i'm using and it's effective, but time entensive. I haven't been able to export layers without adding whitespace around the layer in photoshop, haven't tried it in fireworks

Re: OT: Fireworks & template flexibility

2006-03-28 Thread Ricardo Russon
Casey, Am i reading you right : you are exporting the same png each time you want a new element/layer? You can export each layer seperately. That should save you some time.. But i could have miss read... its only been 1/4 cup of coffe since i woke up :) On 3/29/06, Casey Dougall <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: OT: Fireworks & template flexibility

2006-03-28 Thread Casey Dougall
Wouldn't it be great if fireworks and photoshop created css for the layouts... Chopping up psd's all the time myself I haven't got a really good answer for you except to get the psd or png, if he's using fireworks and chop it yourself. I normally cop templates multiple times to get specific elemen

Re: OT: Fireworks & template flexibility

2006-03-28 Thread Ricardo Russon
Rick, Im not sure about the HTML it produces, but the file names can be fixed. All of the layers can be named. if you name a layer title, it will become title.gif, if you name it btnHomeOver, it will become btnHomeOver.gif. This should help you a lot when you go to edit the HTML later. HTH Ric

OT: Fireworks & template flexibility

2006-03-28 Thread Rick Root
I've got a friend who builds web site templates in Fireworks for use with a CMS that I built. Every time he builds a new template, I have to "fix" the HTML to make the template so hat it is height flexible. As is, the navigation gets all crazy and stuff. The templates he generates are heavily