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couple questions

Hello, I have a couple of questions for the world:

1- I am designing and building a website. I am learning Dreamweaver and Flash, I have a limited working knowledge of illustrator and Photoshop. I would like to find out the best way to get an illustrator file into Dreamweaver. For some reason the formats offered in Illustrator 9 will not open in Dreamweaver. I have to open my work in Photoshop, save as a gif, then bring it to Dreamweaver. Isn't that losing the benefits of working with the vector based illustrator?

2- What size should I make my web site pages to accomodate everyone's computer screen without having to scroll? Or is it better to do a proportionatly constrained site that changes to match a screen?

3- Is it better to creat text and import it to Dreamweaver or create the text in dreamweaver?

4- In Dreamweaver: layers or tables? What is better?

4-This is related, but different. I can't open an illustrator 9 file because my computer says "not enough memory to open illustration". I tried closing programs and allocating more memory to Illustrator, but to no avail. any ideas?

Thank you very much,

Charley

ps I am working with a mac g4 OS9.2

1- I am designing and building a website. I am learning Dreamweaver and Flash, I have a limited working knowledge of illustrator and Photoshop. I would like to find out the best way to get an illustrator file into Dreamweaver. For some reason the formats offered in Illustrator 9 will not open in Dreamweaver. I have to open my work in Photoshop, save as a gif, then bring it to Dreamweaver. Isn't that losing the benefits of working with the vector based illustrator?

Unless you're suing SVG's, then you're going to have to rasterize the images for the web anyway, so no, really, it doesn't. If you are using SVGs, then Illustrator has an option to save in that file format.

2- What size should I make my web site pages to accomodate everyone's computer screen without having to scroll? Or is it better to do a proportionatly constrained site that changes to match a screen?

It depends on the layout. Some layouts work well with a variable width, some look terrible. So I'd say go with whichever looks best. If you go with a fixed layout, you should probably still be designing for 800x500 screen res for the most compatabilty... so your layout would be 780xp x whatever.

3- Is it better to creat text and import it to Dreamweaver or create the text in dreamweaver?

If you mean create text in a word doc and then import it, yah, probably better to do it that way if you have a lot of content. It's mostly a matter of personal preference, though.

4- In Dreamweaver: layers or tables? What is better?

Neither...... CSS.

4-This is related, but different. I can't open an illustrator 9 file because my computer says "not enough memory to open illustration". I tried closing programs and allocating more memory to Illustrator, but to no avail. any ideas?

Is it a complex vector? How big's the file? How much memory do you have allocated to Illustrator?

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Re: couple questions

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Originally posted by charley

1- I am designing and building a website. I am learning Dreamweaver and Flash, I have a limited working knowledge of illustrator and Photoshop. I would like to find out the best way to get an illustrator file into Dreamweaver. For some reason the formats offered in Illustrator 9 will not open in Dreamweaver. I have to open my work in Photoshop, save as a gif, then bring it to Dreamweaver. Isn't that losing the benefits of working with the vector based illustrator?

In Illustrator you have the Save for Web file menu option. Just click on it and choose to save your work either in jpg, gif or png.

2- What size should I make my web site pages to accomodate everyone's computer screen without having to scroll? Or is it better to do a proportionatly constrained site that changes to match a screen?

You could try SVG graphics, which can expand or contract depending on the needs. Just search for this in Google and you should find lots of info on this. But keep in mind that people will have to download the SVG viewer in order to navigate your site.

3- Is it better to creat text and import it to Dreamweaver or create the text in dreamweaver?

Create it inside Dreamweaver, unless you want to use an image for it. There's really no need to copy and paste text since when you paste it you will still need to change it's properties like fonts, colors and stuff.

4- In Dreamweaver: layers or tables? What is better?

If I'm not wrong Dreamweaver's layers are actually CSS, since they use the <div> command, so use those.

4-This is related, but different. I can't open an illustrator 9 file because my computer says "not enough memory to open illustration". I tried closing programs and allocating more memory to Illustrator, but to no avail. any ideas?

I don't really know about this, it has been a long time since I worked in Illustrator using a Mac.