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shelly
02-03-2007, 10:06 PM
We are trying to set up a website. Does anyone have any advice on the best programs to manipulate different types of drawings. I have heard of InDesign most recently but could'nt figure anything out about it.
VERYCIVILDRAFTER
05-03-2007, 04:24 PM
I'm a little confused.

This statement "We are trying to set up a website." Doesn't correlate (to me) to the question "Does anyone have any advice on the best programs to manipulate different types of drawings"?

:) Would you mind elaborating on the relevance between the two, so we can provide a more pertinent answer? :)
shelly
08-03-2007, 08:13 PM
No problem. So we currently use Auto cad, Adobe SketchUp, and have photographs that I have been opening in Adobe Photoshop. The way I THINK websites work is that you create a layout of all these different type of files. Previously I was laying everything out in photoshop as a single sheet which could be printed out like the old "traditional" portfolio's we've all had, then hoping in the future to put it on the web.
First of all I am not sure that Photoshop is the appropriate program to be laying out all these different files since it takes some program manipulation to convert them all to bitmap's and pdf's. There is one question, since I would like a "traditional" portfolio as well as a website.
Secondly, I dont know what the best program is to CREATE a website. My room mate said she knows how to use Adobe Component? It sounds pretty cheap which is a good thing, but looking for more advice. Are there any FREE programs out there for this sort of thing?
So in the end, I want to combine drawings easily for view on the web and as printable documents. Thank you all for your help.
VERYCIVILDRAFTER
08-03-2007, 10:15 PM
You're going to want to keep drawing portfolio images seperate from web page images. This is because JPEG images are great for web pages (data compression) but not for "works in progess". Compressed JPEG's will lose image quality after each save.

For web page advice I would head here.
D-A-L.com (http://www.d-a-l.com/help/forumdisplay.php?f=33)
That forum has lots of web advice and general computer advice. The webmaster here works on that one, too. So say Hi for me.