I have a web site. Its ok, but it bores me. If it bores me, im sure it bores my potential clients.
My problem with it is the general layout of it. The design and the look of it. I have only built sites with online site builders, pretty easy, but looks cheap.
If there any way I can use Corel Draw x4 to build a good site, with links to other pages and stuff? Or do I need to buy (download?) site building software?
Cheers all!
Adam
Dori Clothing Co.
ps. love the site, its such a great tool!! Cheers!!
i dont know about corel but if you can get dreamweaver, you could prolly come up with something good. but i guess i need to know somethin about html / css (w3schools.com has very good tutorials)
You can use coreldraw to layout the "look and feel" of the website. All the buttons, where your text goes, where your logo goes, etc.
Then you can hire a place to take that graphic layout and convert it to HTML so you can have actual webpages that you can upload to a webhost that look exactly like the layout you designed (only functional)
There used to be a free tutorial on advancedartist.com, but it looks like he's selling it now.
No need to Pay a web developer. There are many free web editors all over google. If you have a design or layout use dreamweaver or even Microsoft publisher.
Copy and paste your main images into the editors, create your LAYOUT and the editor will build the HTML code for you.
No one really builds a site from scratch these days. Many might add optional features into their sites manually. But most start of with an HTML editor or some program that does "All or MOST of the hard work"
There are so many ways to build a website these days. The only option worth considering paying BIG BUCKS is if you want some fancey FLASH MEDIA designs that move across the screen, OR if you are investing in some high price software thats going to streamline your business.
My personal oppinion is the layout is the hardest part. But if you already designed your layout, then adding links and making your site functional should be CAKE! Again, thats as long as you are not doing the HIGH TECHY FLASH MEDIA STUFF!
You can use Corel to draw a picture of your website, but you still need to get it "coded" to function. Many folks use Fireworks or ImageReady to perform this task. Fireworks & Dreamweaver work especially well togther.
It can be tricky for a noob to slice it correctly and use the proper CSS commands/functions to get it to display. For instance.... you don't need the WHOLE background image, you can take a 5px wide slice of it and tell the CSS to repeat.
A couple of years ago I did this mockup by creating the image of the website in Fireworks, then slicing it, and re-asembling in Dreamweaver. We never finished the project, but it is a sample of how that process works.
donpedrosaz.com/dev/
Last edited by Rodney; May 30th, 2008 at 04:42 PM.
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