Advise: ASP.NET w/ Attractive Pages

[Melagan]

Greetings,

Over the past few years, I have come to a fundamental understanding of HTML, CSS, SQL, ASP.NET, Visual Basic (and VB.NET) - These are all areas that I use to create web applications, but with a very basic look. What are some good programs that integrate well with ASP.NET but also offer some of the WYSIWYG of programs like Dreamweaver?

I've not even tried editing ASP.NET pages with Dreamweaver, so I may have answered my own question.

Ultimately, I am looking to create pages that have a great look and feel, but also offer the functionality and dynamic content of ASP.NET driven pages.

Any advise? Thank you!

~Melagan
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[ca8msm]

Whichever IDE you use to edit your pages is kind of irrelevant. Yes, you may find it easier using Visual Studio or Dreamweaver over something like notepad but ultimately they have no impact on how your page looks. No program renders the page exactly like your browser does so the only thing they will help you with is writing the page quicker. Personally, I use Visual Studio in the HTML view of the aspx page and the only reason I use this over notepad is because of the colour coding for the HTML.

If you want to make a page "look good" you will be better concentrating on CSS (for example, have a look at the

http://www.csszengarden.com

site) and look into learning some graphic design.


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[vbkris]

hi,

normally i design the pages using Dreamweaver.
i use the IDE for doing coding, main reason being intelli sense ...

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[Melagan]

I have plenty of experience in Photoshop, but mostly from a photographer's point of view with editing and restoring photos. I've thought for quite a while that I should look into Flash and the more creative side of Photoshop - any suggestions in that avenue?

~Melagan
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[ca8msm]

I'd agree with the Photoshop statement (if you need a site that shows off photograghs or your image design techniques) but only if that is appropiate to your site. Also, I wouldn't necessarily agree with the Flash side as it isn't very accessible. You can do most of what you'll need with CSS alone (see the site I linked to earlier).


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[monksnake]

I personally think you should develop some skills in Photoshop and look at web pages like

http://www.alistapart.com/

to develop the ability to make good use of your Photoshop skills with HTML.

There's this guy I work with (kaht) who has gotten a lot more skilled with Photoshop lately and the result is the webpages he makes look very nice and professional.



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[vbkris]

in one of the companies i worked for this is how they normally how a website design is carried out:

1. Multiple Templates (PSDs) are created using photoshop and sent to client for approval.
2. Once the client is OK, we divide the page into 2 parts:
a. Searchable part (We use HTML and CSS combo for this)
b. Interactive (We normally go to flash for this as its simple, fast and cross browser compatible etc)...

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