I'm intermediate/beginner level and only have Photoshop/Fireworks/Dreamweaver:

I have a couple of questions, I'm creating an eNewsletter in Photoshop (b/c i'm more familiar with the interface) and importing it into fireworks and creating a PNG.

Some questions:

In order to create a template file for my client, do I:

1) create in frames or tables or just use one image?

2)what's the best way of importing it into dreamweaver to finally get the HTML file(s) to transfer to my client?

HELP - I'm definitely not clear on this...thanks in advance for any suggestions!

LJH

ljhubbard,

You are asking several good questions.

The easiest way to do it is as you said to create it in photoshop or fireworks (whichever you are more comfortable with). You don't neccessarily need to add the step of converting it to a PNG just because fireworks uses them. PNGs aren't supported by older browsers so its better to save it as a GIF file if its a graphic or JPG if its a picture and you can do this in photoshop.

If you have a large image that you are using as a template the best way to do it is to slice the image up into smaller pieces using the "slice tool" (again either with photoshop or fireworks). Then insert the image into a table piece by piece. You don't want to insert it into dreamweaver as a solid image because if its a large file it will take forever to download the page. That is why slicing up your images is a good idea. You can put each piece of the image next to each other in the table or create a table cell for each piece. Just remember to set you cell padding and spacing (in the Properties Inspector at the bottom of dreamweaver) both to zero so that there is no space between your images.

Hope that helps.

Kaiman

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