Which software to design professional website?

[sevener]

Hi everybody!

I would like to design a professional website to publish scientific editions. Can somebody recommend me about which software can I use?
And what are the basics to design edition website (e.g journal, books...)?
Is this "easy" task?
I have to say that I am not experienced in web creation but I want to invest myself in publishing.

Thanks for any help or feedback. I would appreciate it.

 

[Johnathan Lyman]

My first recommendation is to get a book on Web Design before you start using programs. There are literally a hundred software apps that will do the same thing for you.

If you want a recommendation, I use Dreamweaver CS5 to code and Adobe Photoshop CS5 for the graphic portion of it.

But again, pick up a book, first. Take a course at a local post-secondary school. You have to walk before you can run. In this case, you have to crawl before walking.

 

[Mike Connor]

Hi everybody!

I would like to design a professional website to publish scientific editions. Can somebody recommend me about which software can I use?
And what are the basics to design edition website (e.g journal, books...)?
Is this "easy" task?
I have to say that I am not experienced in web creation but I want to invest myself in publishing.

Thanks for any help or feedback. I would appreciate it.

Depends a great deal on exactly what you want to do. I like and have used this for quite a few things to do with publishing;

Wikka: Welcome to WikkaWiki

Whatever you use, you will need to learn a lot in order to use it properly and safely.

Regards....Mike Connor

 

[Frank1]

There are also some good on-line tutorials.

 

[A Guy]

If you don't want the learning curve, you might look into this, I've heard the commercial often. It's $5 a month for the basic, but they also host the site for you. I don't have any experience with it, just something to consider:

Intuit Website

A Guy

 

[skald89]

Why photoshop over indesign?

 

[Johnathan Lyman]

Why photoshop over indesign?

Up until CS5, InDesign's primary purpose was for print. It still is for print media, but it's getting its feet wet with some web tools.

 

[skald89]

I dont understand how you can take a psd and turn it into a website. I never really checked on PS but I never saw anything that show you the location of a layer. In Indesign you get to see the exact position of anything you want.

 

[logicearth]

Learn HTML and CSS, as well have artistic skills. No "tool" or "software" can make an professional "anything" without the user having some kind of skill.

 

[skald89]

Learn HTML and CSS, as well have artistic skills. No "tool" or "software" can make an professional "anything" without the user having some kind of skill.

Thats all on the coding side. I am and i think this thread is talking about the design aspect of a website.

 

[logicearth]

Thats all on the coding side. I am and i think this thread is talking about the design aspect of a website.

Making a pretty picture does not make a website. HTML and CSS are required to make a websit, a professional website.

 

[skald89]

Layout and how things will function is "pretty design" its a programmers job to turn that into css,html,java, php, etc..

Thats why theres web design and web programming

Yes, the programming side you need all the technical knowledge of the coding languages.

Personally I feel this thread is talking about how to create the layout and structure of a website to hand of to a programmer.

 

[logicearth]

HTML and CSS is not programming!

HTML creates the foundations, marks up the content.
CSS creates the presentation, makes up the layout/color/looks.
Both are part of the designers job.

And maybe if you read, the original poster is not a team. He has no specific people with special job titles but himself. Which means he will be doing EVERYTHING. So any difference between web "design" and/or "development" is irrelevant.

 

[skald89]

HTML and CSS is not programming!

HTML creates the foundations, marks up the content.
CSS creates the presentation, makes up the layout/color/looks.
Both are part of the designers job.

And maybe if you read, the original poster is not a team. He has no specific people with special job titles but himself. Which means he will be doing EVERYTHING. So any difference between web "design" and/or "development" is irrelevant.

I did say in one of my responses that this is what I may believe and is my intention of posting in this thread. And I personally do not believe that CSS and HTML are a designers job. Why would a programmer want your names for the css files and your crappy coding when he can do all that in his sleep and remember all the names made up for the css?

 

[logicearth]

Web Design is not print, it demands more from the designer then just a pretty picture. Maybe where you work it is different and they like their designers just throwing out pretty images that would never work on an actual web page. A programmer would have little need for the CSS or HTML other then a few routine JavaScript additions. If the developer was smart everything important is backend.

However, the designer is responsible for layout, design, color, content placement. Creating the HTML foundation and the CSS to these requirements is the job of the designer. Are you expecting the developer to take time off to slice your pretty little image up and try and fit it all together so it relatively looks like the original? That is not the job of the developer. That is the designer's realm.

 

[skald89]

The programmer I am working with is doing that. All i have to do is supply the font, weights,size, poistion of things, and how things will function.

Im not saying oh here programmer this a pdf or jpeg and turn it into a website. Im not stupid. As a designer you need to understand basics of web and you create the design with those things in consideration. You don't always know every last bit of content that is going to be in the website, i.e text. So you cant say that as the designer you will always have to do the Html. The website I am working on I actually only know conceptually what text will be placed in and I am designing accordingly. The programmer who owns the site will put the correct txt in and do the html and css. Yes I will help with the css because I made the layout and how things will function

 

[Warlockz]

You can find lots of Software to help you make a website by searching Google for Website Builder Software. or read threw for more advice.......

As others are saying You will need to learn at least the basics of HTML and CSS

HTML Tutorial

With HTML you can create your own Web site.
This tutorial teaches you everything about HTML.

HTML Tutorial

CSS Tutorial

In our CSS tutorial you will learn how to use CSS to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once.

CSS Tutorial

Now you need to figure out where you are going to Host your site....

Many Hosts have Website builder software included with a cheap package plan like this one for example

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There are so many different sites you really need to decide which one is suited best for your website, and the type of site that will work best for you, like others you may want to consider Wiki, Blog, ECT???

Here's a link to a Website Building Help Forum that covers everything that you are seeking advice for..

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Hope this helps in actually answering your questions