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Perfect Tools to Design for web?

I’ve been designing for the web since the text version of it. My first tool was a simple text editor. I know some folks are wondering what is to design there when you have nothing but text. Believe me design is not just about pictures. And that¹s the reason why I decided to bring this topic up.

What are the best tools web designers have now days?

Since web documents now are not just text and not just pictures, how do you design those hybrids when there only text redactors and image manipulation software packages.
Does anybody know an application that can do both?
Adobe is trying real hard to make Photoshop the ultimate design tool for web. But is it even close to what web designers really need?

How do you design a webpage that has 100% width in Photoshop or Fireworks?

Design nowadays is not about absolutely positioning elements on the page it is much more.
The way I work now with Photoshop to come up with new site design is straightforward. I draw on a canvas with fixed width a representation of what user will see when he opens the site in a browser with 800px width window on some specific OS.
It is easy, it worked for me for a long time, I’d say all the time when we used tables for positioning and majority of the site had fixed width.

What do I need now to be able to come up with a sketch of a modern website driven by css?

I’m a designer, not a coder and not a programmer. I know a lot about HTML, XHTML, CSS and so on. But that’s not my specialty. I want to design websites not build them – there are other guys who spend nights reading about all the new specifications and compatibility and hacks for css to make it work on both IE and Mozilla. Let them do all the coding. I don’t want to go back and forth between Photoshop, Dreamweaver and browser to design a site.

Give me the tools that give me power to use all the modern browsers’ abilities to position and size elements.

I know it’s not going to be easy, I will have to assign the properties to the elements but that’s fine. I knew that it’s one of the hardest jobs on the planet when I decided to become web designer :)

So, Adobe and Macromedia, is there a chance that now when you are “The One” designers will get what they need to make web beautiful?

As designers we should demand better tools. But we should know what we need first. To me it looks like not a lot of people have a clue and we have to change it.

I’d appreciate everybody’s efforts in describing what they think they need to design effectively new generation sites.

Perfect Tools to Design for web (part II) is coming soon …

May 26, 01:55 PM |