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0 pointsLarryMade213y ago0 comments

Think of Photoshop as a sketchpad without the limitations/insanity of HTML and CSS... so you can be totally right brain dreaming up stuff; your mind is thinking only on the look at that point, not whether IE 8 is gonna blow it all out of the water.

Once you get the layout into something good then you fire up notepad or whatever and go into left-brain mode and hack your mock-up it into something that works.

I, myself, find Photoshop (or any freeform graphics tool) a bad tool for web mock-ups and HTML/CSS a dreadful syntax to format with... so, either way of doing those is a struggle for me. :-D

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krapp13y ago· 2 in thread

so you can be totally right brain dreaming up stuff; your mind is thinking only on the look at that point, not whether IE 8 is gonna blow it all out of the water.

Yeah that would be my stumbling block, i'd always be thinking 'ok this looks nice but how will I make it work?' People like me are why they made Bootstrap I guess. Which is odd, since I have a graphic design background originally... but I guess my brain just doesn't like moving between the two modes (or I want to avoid the "turn the psd into html" part of the process...)

smartwater13y ago

A photoshop design can always be coded into pixel-perfect HTML/CSS. Whether you know how is a different question though.

krapp13y ago

Good point -- I don't know the efficient way to do that.

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