Re: web design -- one Photoshop file with everything ???

While not responding directly to the original post, I do have a related
comment.

I use Adobe Image Styler extensively to create my web graphics.   It is
extremely simple to arrange the graphics I've just created in approximately
the layout I want on the final page.   I find this very helpful in deciding
where I want the elements to go and it is lightning fast compared to messing
with coding a page.  After all, I already have the program open to create
the graphics in, so why not just move them around the screen into how I want
my page to look?

While Image Styler does allow me to save the layout as html, I never do this
(I haven't ever tried actually, but I would imagine it would make some
pretty funky tables to get things exactly as I have in my trial layout).
No, it is only a tool for me to quickly decide if I like how the images are
interacting with each other etc. I might even slip a screen capture of some
text to simulate the text on the page.  When I am done, I place a large
background box behind all the images and save the whole works as a single
graphic or occasionally I might carve it up as 2 or 3.

Now as absurd as this sounds....I then throw the huge graphic onto a webpage
and use it to show my client.   I can get feedback from them without having
done a lot of work on the page layout at this point.   I just say to them in
effect:  "this is what your page will look like...do you want me to make
changes?"   If they do, then I incorporate those changes into the page when
I create it.   I AM sure to let them know the technique I've used so they
aren't put off if it is slow to load.

As for someone using Photoshop to do as you described...I can only imagine
he might have done something similar...having one large graphic as the whole
page, with image maps in areas where there needed to be hyperlinks.  VERY
BAD!!      (Actually I have a hosting-only client that does this often,
yikes!)

Regards,

Heather

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Heather Peel
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