[corykg]

this is a place for you to list your favourite apps, utilites, websites and such that you use when developing a website.

And of course, being me, I have a question revolving web design this time. How can I add music to my site that the user can choose from maybe 10 mp3's. An example is www.airblais.com but they use flash and I don't.

[B3nd1k]

Notepad and Photoshop, the best apps to make web pages ever!
About the music; i dont think you can make the user choose from many mp3's with html. Only way i know of is by using flash, and actionscript.

[nowhereman]

Photoshop and Homesite+, used to be Dreamweaver, but I rely on it less and less lately.

[i-mode]

Photoshop CS and Dreamweaver!

[contrasutra]

vim.

alistapart.com is great.

EDIT: Oh, and GIMP is great as well. 2.0 rocks! :rock:

[o0o The DEEJ o0o]

Well...

Photoshop for high-q graphics work

Fireworks for layout/interface design

Dreamweaver for a preview of what it will look like

Then hand it over to one of the coders lol!

That's always been how it's worked in the agencies i've been with... Albeit only 2.

I personally like dreamweaver... I seem to remember someone saying a while back that using it makes you an amateur or something... That's not true. Dreamweaver is a great tool for designers like me. We don't do coding... And there is a good reason for that... Dedicated designers are, on the whole, crap at coding! lol . Biiig fan of Fireworks... Saves me a great deal of time on a big project.

As for the MP3... best way to do it is using Flash... Which is ok in this case cause it will be doing something useful (even though i find background mp3s annoying lol)... But I won't get started on the topic of "flashderbation" cause it p*sses me off something stupid and i'll just rant lol!

Cheers,

[alang]

Try HTML KIT for the coding. You can get it here http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

[Duckie]

google

[corykg]

thanks duckie. appreciate it.

i figured that since a lot of the members here made aqua related and often aqua looking or brushed sites, etc. that i could get some tips and tuts in this thread.

but no no. google is the answer.

[Seph]

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Originally posted by Duckie@Jan 17 2004, 09:15 AM
google

what? , i always thought it was webcrawler!

[Ludge]

Photoshop CS, notepad, and a little bit of (no laughing, it's useful and free) frontpage express.

[Duckie]

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Originally posted by corykg@Jan 17 2004, 02:00 AM
thanks duckie. appreciate it. 

i figured that since a lot of the members here made aqua related and often aqua looking or brushed sites, etc. that i could get some tips and tuts in this thread.

but no no.  google is the answer.

to be honest, I dont know why noone mentioned Adobe GoLive

it is the best website creator ever...drag and drop, support for ALL formats (css, xml, php, swf, etc), easy to use, multipaned view(for layout, HTML code, and more), imports any itmes made in Quicktime and Photoshop(including website templates)

[futb0l]

NetJuke is an Mp3 script that you can store your music on, there's a lot of features, i am not sure if this is what you want but you can google the name "netjuke"

[Seph]

dont worry ludge, im not laughing im just sick... nothing funny about htat...


frontpage?... seriously?

[o0o The DEEJ o0o]

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Originally posted by Duckie@Jan 17 2004, 11:09 AM
to be honest, I dont know why noone mentioned Adobe GoLive

Yeah, but Adobe still just havent got it feeling as "polished" as Dreamweaver to use... Tested both side-by-side for the magazine and DW came out just about on top. Yeah you can import photoshop objects (You can also import InDesign objects directly from a print layout which in my opinion is just as useful), but unless you create your layout in photoshop then theres not much use for that. Dreamweaver has support for all the formats now, and they are starting to try and get a handle on CSS design... Although it is a bit flunky. The relevant CSS panel in Dreamweaver is a miracle of usablity, though... Click on an abject and instantly see all the css attributes for that objects class, and change them without going back the the code or messing with other panels etc... wonderful.

I like GoLive too... i feel it's a better tool for the design of the way a website works as a whole... but personally i feel Dreaweaver has the edge for designers... Go Live caters more for the technically minded

[Seph]

I didnt like go live one bit... if in the eyes of Stevie, dreamweaver bloats the code, go live would make him cry! (dont get me started with frontpage!!)

[o0o The DEEJ o0o]

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Originally posted by Seph@Jan 17 2004, 12:36 PM
(dont get me started with frontpage!!)

Awww, c'mon, Seph We all have to start somwhere, don't we? hehe

Actually... Yes, we do all have to start somewhere... But that somewhere shouldn't be with an abomination like MS Frontpage

Ha ha!

[Francisco]

I think Macromedia has some of the best tools, Dreamweaver being one of them.

[Ludge]

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Originally posted by Seph@Jan 17 2004, 11:09 AM
dont worry ludge, im not laughing im just sick... nothing funny about htat...


frontpage?... seriously?

Actually I don't use frontpage... I said frontpage express.

I draw graphics and layout on paper, the use photoshop CS to make the images. Notepad to tweak the code and layout to how I want it which gives me a nice template.
Then, rather than faff about with typing the content bits out with tags and such, I use frontpage express (note the express. It came free with Win98 and runs fine on XP) to do the actual words and suchlike, then just paste the code (with a tiny bit of tidying up) into my premade template. Viola! A page is made!

So yes I use FP Express. But no, not as my main tool.

[Duckie]

Macromedia sucks

too proprietary

and crashes alot