Photoshop Template Publishing?

[babs]

I have been all over the web trying to get some answers and thankfully I finally found you guys!

Background - I taught myself FrontPage 1998(?), used to understand basic html (am a little rusty now ) - now have FP 2003, Dreamweaver (never used yet), CS2 with PhotoShop, Image Ready and GoLIve.

I have built some fairly basic websites in the past - they were primarily for volunteer organizations so needed to be functional not flashy. I used (and like) shared borders and tables to create my structure. I like being able to update things at will - adding pages, changing content and such.

Now I have a business where I want to have a more professional website - but didn't want to spend tons of money and be tied to someone else updating it. I found a couple of templates at Boxedart.com that I liked. They come in psd files and my daughter is helping me make the color changes and whatnot.

But nowhere in the boxedart site do I actually see any tutorial on how to actually get it up on to the web! I would love to be able to use FP (since I am familiar with it) but am also open to DW or GoLive.

The template has a top and left side banner which would lend themselves to shared borders - do I somehow isolate them out and do that or do I use the photoshop template and redo each page as a whole. That would seem labor intensive to have to keep inserting the hyperlinks on the menu items (why I like shared borders!).

i did see a tip where the person indicated that you take the photoshop file into Image Ready and optimize it - but aside from recognizing the names of the programs I'm not too sure what that means!

I would love some tips and how tos - but I'm even open to just pointing me in the right direction to find my answers - a book, a website. I'm a pretty good self learner - I just hate the feeling of shooting in the dark!

Thanks!

[babs]

Am I asking in the wrong forum - or have I still not found a place where I could possible get some answers?

I have been all over - and I find other people constantly asking the same thing - there HAS to be a place to get some answers!

[chicgeek]

I'm not familiar with photoshop templates usable for websites. Can you link us to the page where you found the templates you liked?

Also, I am very glad that you're looking to use Dreamweaver - it's a great step. But I do urge you to brush up on your knowledge of the pure code as it's an invaluable skill, where programs like FP (shudder) and DW should be just tools for your existing knowledge.

So, yes, again, can you post the page and I'll see if I can help from there?

[Costin Trifan]

I'm not sure if there's an online page or something for us to see...I think he wanted an answer about Photoshop Template Publishing...

My question is why so many people are using photoshop to create a big static image and after that to slice it in pieces so they can use it on their website.

I've never seen a Photoshop website to look good. They're all so damn plain.

As Laura said:

...But I do urge you to brush up on your knowledge of the pure code as it's an invaluable skill...

[Néeox]

Publishing your template from Photoshop isent a very hard task once you get the hang of the how to do it and learn to use the tools correctly to carry out the task.

To do this you will need to use your three programs, Photoshop, Image Ready and then Dreamweaver. In photoshop and image ready will be used to set the template up for publishing in Dreamweaver. So you will basicly be slicing the image into different sections etc.

Since you dident make the template yourself i am not sure if the PSD you got has already been sliced or set up to be imported into dreamweaver so it makes it a little hard to help out there. It will also take a long time to explain so here is a link to a website that has a large tutorial on how to publish a website from Photoshop to Dreamweaver.
It is aimed at beginners to it should be quite easy to understand for you.
Tutorial - Click Here

Hope that helps.
- Jye

[babs]

Thank you so much for the tutorial link - that's exactly the info I was looking to find.