Shouldn’t it be easy for a web designer to create a site based on my design?
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Shouldn’t it be easy for a web designer to create a site based on my design?
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it will be easy
Easy? Yes. Cheap? No. You can’t “convert” a picture to a web page – all the PS file gives the designer is a look to shoot for. Unless the site is 99% picture, it’s about as much work to design the site from your PS file as it is from a verbal description or a pencil sketch.
Actually, a web designer CAN take an image and make it into a website very easily. They can hotlink parts of the image to other areas of the internet and split the image into sections for faster downloading.
It’s obviously, however, a bad idea to make a website from one solid image. For instance, users that speak another language would have a very tough time finding information on it.
Showing the image to your designer is not a bad idea at all, but neither is just showing him a sketch, or even just talking it out.
If you created the design in Photoshop, you can also slice up the image and generate the code either in ImageReady for versions CS2 and older, or right in Photoshop in CS3.
I’m not saying this is better than hiring a professional to build your site, but if you are building a personal site that doesn’t require complex functionality or database integration, you COULD actually build it yourself.
Yes, a good web designer can work from anything. In fact he/she will probably take your idea and make it look better. My site was built by http://www.samwilson3d.com
Took about 7 days, looks great, and most importantly, started getting traffic immediately.