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WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool Morphic Etsy shop Slice your layout using Photoshop Part 3 on How to Create a Web site with Photoshop and Dreamweaver This tutorial is part of a 4 page tutorial on how to create a simple web site using Photoshop. Tutorial 1 : Creating a unique website header Tutorial 2 : Designing your website layout in Photoshop Tutorial 3 : Slicing your layout in Photoshop Tutorial 4 : Creating your web site in Dreamweaver Let us begin with the slicing tutorial. Open the file you want to slice clicking on File>Open. Now click on Save. This tutorial is part of a 4 page tutorial on how to create a simple website using Photoshop. Please Like, Tweet, Share or Comment on this page if you found this tutorial/resource useful! No portion of these materials may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever, without the express written consent of Entheos.
Dive Into HTML 5 Design Studio Website March 17th, 2008 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Web Layout We shall draw the scrolling bar on the right side, choosing the Rectangle Tool (U) and the color #3E3E3E Use the same instrument for representing the moving element of the scrolling: The layer’s parameters: Blending Options>Inner Shadow Blending Options>Gradient Overlay Gradient’s parameters: On the last stage we shall introduce the site’s copyright: Finished! View full size here. Post Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Photoshop - New File For The Web Tutorials [Contents] [Next] When you create a navigation bar, a page layout, or any Web graphic from scratch, there are some important technical issues to consider up front-including image dimensions, resolution, color mode, and color profile. You confront most of these issues right off the bat in Photoshop when you set up a new document. Image Dimensions Files are measured in pixels when you design for the Web, but Photoshop's default for dialog boxes and rulers is set to inches. Choose File>New, and enter the Width and Height of a new Web file in pixels. To be more accurate, do some research to determine the platform, display resolution, and browser that your particular audience is likely to use. Resolution Pixels are small rectangles of color information that are the building blocks of bitmapped images. Note that your Photoshop settings do not control the absolute size of an image on a viewer's screen. Color Mode & Bit Depth Background Contents Every new file begins with a single layer.
The Perfect Fluid Width Layout I've been thinking a lot about screen resolution lately and how the use of fluid width websites is the best way to accommodate all visitors screen resolutions. The alternative, static width websites, have to make a choice. You can optimize for 800px width, the lowest common denominator, and give up the use of several hundred pixels of width for users with larger screens. I think the best possible scenario is to make a fluid width site that accomodates everyone. Works in all major browsersShrinks to 780pxThis accomodates users with 800x600 resolution, with no horizontal scroll! I set to work and wouldn't ya know it, I think I got it =) I'm fairly nervous calling it "Perfect", because I'm sure some geniuses out there are going to poke some holes in it and call me out on a few things. Share On
Optimal width for 1024px resolution? Let’s face it: The jump from developing for 800×600 to 1024×n is inevitable; not only inevitable, but just around the corner, too. Many of you are considering the jump. Some of you have already leaped. I suspect that some time in 2007 most of us will knock out comps optimized for 1024px resolution rather than 800px if we’re not doing so already. But perhaps just as important as when it will happen is how: What’s the proper width for a layout optimized for 1024? With 800x600 it’s easy: Account for browser chrome and scrollbars (usually 40-50px) and then use as much of the remaining space as possible. If we use the same logic for 1024, browser chrome is still the same, so that leaves us with 974-984px as the “ideal” width. Additionally, in a time we all are, or should be, considering grid usage in layouts, is a random number like 974 an optimal number for dividing a layout into its necessary elements — sidebar(s), main content area, and so on? Shameless Workshop Promotion