Re: one Photoshop file

Hey steve -- your two cents are worth some benjamins in my book
------------ Ive got tons of backup from you guys to at least
demonstrate with the head cheese here that Im not talking out my
you-know-what.

< ~ off to set up files <g>

Lisa

--- goshadow(at)islandnet.com wrote:
> In the typical Canuck style of not wanting to rock
> the boat, I would 
> like to slip my 2-cents in.  As a Photoshop zealot
> this thread has 
> been interesting to say the least (I've managed to
> utilize the peter 
> principle to land teaching gigs for the local school
> district).
> 
> IMHO Photoshop does not make for a good "layout
> tool" nor if you 
> haven't used it, are native Photoshop files useable
> on the web.
> 
> I realize that this is graphics and not basics, but
> something to 
> consider.  We are dealing with HTML  (Hyper TEXT
> Markup 
> Language).  Fancy tags aside, pages are still text. 
>  For anyone 
> wanting to use "graphics" rather than a combination
> of text and 
> graphics (and not text converted to graphics either)
>  Fly at it 
> Please! **grin**
> 
> Case in point, I recently had a client who had a
> site designed by 
> someone using Imaestyler  (20 plus pages)  NOT ONE
> piece of 
> text.  EVERYTHING was a graphic.  All Descriptions,
> All info the 
> whole enchilada.  
> 
> Heres the big problem. (besides load time) The sites
> are often 
> indexed by 'bots or spiders.  They look for text,
> they cant pick out 
> words from pix.   so the site never gets indexed
> properly.  
> 
> The short and sweet of it is, the original designer
> made 500 bux, 
> and I made a 1,000.    
> 
> Its like the discussion of WYSIWIG  VS Notepad ... 
> Everything is 
> a tool in the toolbox.   Used in conjunction with
> one another it can 
> work, but try building a house just using a hammer,
> those board 
> ends when you smash them to length might be more
> than just a 
> little ragged.  maybe teaming up a saw would help
> the project?   
> 
> Just some thoughts that seemed to have slipped
> through the 
> cracks. 
> http://www.islandnet.com/~sylvestr/goshadow
> 
> Stan Sterdan   
> shadow services 
> Victoria BC Canada 
> Member: HTML Writers Guild
> 
> When you get old you get hardening of the
> arteries...
> When you get old you also get hardening of the
> intellect... 
>             Don't stop thinking!"
> 

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