Sunday, October 11, 2009

Tools of the Trade - Dreamweaver

Been really working a lot in Dreamweaver the past few days, and a little bit of Flash.  I think this stuff is essential to publishing comics on the web in the future.  I'm really trying to get my directory structure set on my hard drive, so I can build my files and have them end up in the correct places.  I update multiple sites, so DW is great for easily switching between different domains.  I could even see building pages with panels laid out in tables, rather than just doing an entire page as a JPG.


Laying out a comic page in DW would also allow you go stretch a vast distance either down or to the right, breaking out of the standard page format.  I'm kind of torn at the moment - will readers accept layouts that don't look like traditional comics?  You also have to consider bandwidth and how long a page takes to load putting too much on a single page.

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