Using Photoshop to create website - Problem with frames

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I purchased a site template from www.templatemonster.com and am trying to get the thing customized. - I have used photoshop off and on over the years, and seem to have a problem when exporting for web. - The frames are basically off a bit, and where there should be text there are is just "gg" and "tt".

Do you usually have to go into another program like dreamweaver or frontpage to clean up the mess? - If so how do you do it in there????

Thanks for any help!
 
Hello what i do is design it in photoshop, slice it, and export it into html.

Then i goto Dreamweaver and redo the whole thing in clean html.

Also i would put all the text and everything in in photoshop as that will make the site size bigger and slower, also alot more complicated to update the site.

Best thing to do is use the least amount of images possible while still keeping one nice looking eye candy of a site.

personally i would never buy one of those nasty tm templates. Just my opinion
 
You can also do the following:

Slice it, export it to html, but don’t use that html as a final one.

Edit it in a Dreamweaver. Where you have a larger surfaces use CSS background repeat behavior to decrease page size, instead of full images.

Example: You have a blue box sized 200 x 200 px. Cut that image to 200 x 2 px and use repeat behavior with your CSS file.

Also, instead of doing text in a Photoshop, type it in a Dreamweaver whenever is possible.

If you need more help, contact me
 
Being a web-developer (NOTE: Not Designer) by trade, I dont have excessive experience with moving and slicing, but I have done it in the past...
Usually I slice in Fireworks (Macromedia Suite) and then move the data across using the HTML Export command into MMS DreamWeaver.

Usually (in fact in nearly all situations) you will find that the slices are a bit 'off' and the tables are nearly always incorrect. Unfortunately, due to the copmlex nature of Fireworks-created websites, this is just what happens. Often, there will also be sections where Fireworks has just put in 2px wide 'spacer blocks' which are not only time-consuming to load, but also very heavy on code, which at the end of the day just seems to make EVERYTHING slower!

The Macromedia Suite is rather pricy, but there are quite a few OpenSource Options which you should be able to find via Google.

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Hope you get it right without too much hassle!
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