Best Way to Design a Web Page??

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Marcus Smaby - 26 Oct 2004 13:55 GMT

I have been working with VStudio 2003 for some time. I have even built a
couple of plain-jane web sites (to collect software evaluations, book
conference rooms, etc.). Now I am faced with creating a Website that needs
to 'sizzle' (customers request). As far as I can tell, the web page designer
in VS is weak. Try to create a table with some spanned cells or insert a
Flash animation, or other external files without resorting to HTML.

I use and love Adobe GoLive CS for ease of use and richness of the visual
design tools. But GoLive does not support asp.net, which leaves me wondering
what all the rest of you do for web design tools. Yes, I can slog it out in
the VS design mode. But there has to be a better way.

Are there any books out there that concentrate on the visual elements of web
page design using VS instead of rehashing the asp.net manuals? Something
that gives a cookbook approach to a really attractive set of pages that
incorporate cutting edge animation and interactivity. A how-to to using
flash in asp.net, multimedia streams, etc.

Many have suggested that I use Dreamweaver MX. I tried and disliked the
program immensely. I would like to keep it closer to home. Closer to the VS
way of doing things.

Sorry.. just my evening rant. But I am curious as to what the rest of you
think.

TIA

Marcus

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Mythran - 26 Oct 2004 17:19 GMT

Hrm, hand code? Seriously, some awesome "kick arse" web sites were all
designed and implemented by hand, no gui's....

Well, I'm sure there are anyways...not many of us hand coders left out there
(and I'm doin' more and more drag-n-drop in vs than I used to).

Ahhh...the good ole days of Homesite...

Mythran

>I have been working with VStudio 2003 for some time. I have even built a
>couple of plain-jane web sites (to collect software evaluations, book
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> Marcus

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-- Ken -- - 27 Oct 2004 14:26 GMT

I have found that I just have to use more than one tool to do just a single
job any more. If you like the GoLive component for the GUI interfacing of
design go ahead and develop all of the layouts with that tool. When you get
to the ASP component you can open the same exact job in VS 2003 without it
wanting to add or modify any part you do not touch and wrap up the ASP
components there.

I use DreamWeaver for all of the GUI based template usage and reusable code
components for the layout which is its strong points but it is weak on the
ASP and C# design compared to VS 2003 so that it was I use for coding the
ASP components and I still have to use FrontPage just to publish since a lot
of the servers we use require FP extension based publishing (a real pain
since I have a Dreamweaver site I publish to then use that site to publish
via FP because of all the things FP likes to add to a source and target
site, but its effective).

I wouldn't mind using FP up front except it always likes to code the MS way
and its such a pain to get that to turn off completeley whereas dreamWeaver
likes native HTML/XML without a lot of thrills and frills in the coding,
much like the VS environment. I quite interested to see what the VS Whidley
edition is going to be like since it us a version to be geared more to web
app designing.

-ken-

>I have been working with VStudio 2003 for some time. I have even built a
>couple of plain-jane web sites (to collect software evaluations, book
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> Marcus

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