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#1 2006-06-15 19:32:32
- propmachine
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Best way to get started /learning textpattern
I am brand new to this wonderful little application and am just about ready to get my feet wet
with designing a new site.
I consider myself a graphic designer 1st and a developer 2nd so I am not as strong interpreting the
coding and css aspects of web design. I however, am able to photoshop a heckuva site with killer graphics
and then cut it up into html etc.
My question is what should I focus on first in designing my textpattern site? Will I be able to
create a killer screenshot in photoshop and be able to exactly replicate it in textpattern, through CSS?
What books and web resources should I read to be better prepared for this challenge ahead? Like I said before,
I am talented with rendering in illustrator/photoshop and less versed in raw html coding since I use editors
such as dreamweaver and golive.
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Re: Best way to get started /learning textpattern
propmachine wrote:
I am not as strong interpreting the coding and css aspects of web design. I however, am able to photoshop a heckuva site with killer graphics and then cut it up into html etc.
Learning Webstandards is definitely a plus if you want to design Websites with Textpattern. While strictly speaking you could a table-based with no stylesheets at all within textpattern, you will have a lot more control with less work, when you know how to properly use CSS and keep the HTML-code clean.
My question is what should I focus on first in designing my textpattern site? Will I be able to
create a killer screenshot in photoshop and be able to exactly replicate it in textpattern, through CSS?
Textpattern doesnt aid you in the design aspect of a website, it aids you you in the managing of your content. If you already know how to use HTML and CSS to make a website out of your killer screenshots, then textpattern will certainly not get in the way. Textpattern allows you to very flexibly built your site, and it lets a webdesigner work with the things he’s already comfortable with, which namely, should be (X)HTML and CSS.
What books and web resources should I read to be better prepared for this challenge ahead?
1) Any book that you would get recommended for webdesign. (I am sure other posters will be better able to name good books, as that is not my strong point as well).
2) The usual Textpattern resources linked at the top of this forum, which is the FAQ, the Manual (Textbook), the magazine, looking at the sites other people built, looking at themes that other people have built in textgarden etc.
I use editors such as dreamweaver and golive.
As long as you understand the output and can divide it into the appropiate chunks that is fine as well. Once you get familiar with how textpattern asembles the pages that the browser gets to see, you will also understand how to accordingly divide the output of dreamweaver/golive and place it inside textpatterns “pages” and “forms”.
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#3 2006-06-19 16:49:43
- propmachine
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Re: Best way to get started /learning textpattern
Thank you very much for the helpful reply. I am getting familiar with textpattern slowly but surely and
trying to work it into my “style”. It’s certainly a new way of putting things together for me.
It is re assuring to hear that I can eaisly integrate tp with my existing design skills.
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