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I was wondering if any one has used Corel to design their web site.
I put together some pretty cool artwork to design mine and the person putting it together can't use my jpg's because they have a white square around all the individual pieces of art and look like crap with a dark background. Just don't like the way he put mine together. (he is using notepad)
Is there a good software that would help me out here???
Jim
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Jim..there are any number of utilities that will give you a transparent background...which is what you need. Corel Photopaint will do it, as well as a simple little utility that I downloaded for free, called "L-View".
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Jim, I use Corel 9 almost exclusively for my web graphics, buttons etc. I take what I want into Photopaint and throw some Eye Candy effects on them when I need to.
Check out my site I recently re designed: My Web Site
On your other question about the white outline around your graphics that are put onto a black background, it's easy as pie my friend.
In Corel,when you are ready to export your graphic, goto layout / page setup and look at the background setting. All ya gotta do is to turn your background to black (or whatever color your background is on your webpage) and make sure that the "print and export background" is selected. That's it, when your graphic exports, it takes the black area surrounding it with it, that's why your graphic is having that white line around it, because you exported it from the standard white background of Corel.
Have fun.
-------------------- Tony Broussard Graphic Details Digital Media Loreauville, LA Posts: 395 | From: Loreauville, LA | Registered: Jul 1999
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You can actually build a webpage and export the HTML file in CorelDraw 9. I've done one before. It looked good & seemed to work ok. I imagine the code is not what a web guru would consider "clean HTML" though.
Saving images as a GIF they can have a transparent background. These only look good for certain things like simple logos, buttons & such.
Good Web apps:
Xara Webstyle (by Corel) Dreamweaver (of course) Adobe GoLive! Netobjects Fusion (supposed to be good & easy) Arachnophilia (careware!) Macromedia Homesite
-------------------- Glenn S. Harris
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I designed my site using corel and then exported my entire page as a .bmp
From there is was hacked up put together in Frontpage. Crude way of doing it but I'm happy with the end result and I havent received one negative comment yet.
Good design will carry some flawed html Oh and Im not big on flash and golly gee whiz site. Good graphics and content should do the trick.
-------------------- Bob Stephens Skywatch Signs Zephyrhills, FL
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You can export your entire layout in one file, then from there your webnerd can use Photoshop to slice all the graphics apart and generate the buttons and HTML at the same time... or you can do it right from CorelDRAW.
Notepad, huh? Masochist.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Bob Stephens - amazing site sir! First class. Your design sense is highly evident.
As for the black background, what Tony said I guess, though I never tried it that way. I just draw a black rectangle behind my graphic. However you get it there, trapping your artwork with black will make all the difference in the world - and another bonus...you don't have to save then as .gif. Since you won't need the transparent feature of gif format, save all your optimized images as jpeg.
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one thing that most sign industry websites have in common is the 'I want lots of pictures' and these are no execption
lots of pics means slow to load most of the time and thats how corel exports whole pages... as lots of pics
don't forget to exit any default outlines when you are going to be exporting to gif for a transparent background, or you will end up with a darker edge even when you kill the background colour
cheers gail
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I see it's not just me having difficulty with this web stuff. I knew if I put something together some web techie would know what to do with it, in my case I haven't found the right web designer yet to make it happen. We will soon have our site the way we want it, thanks to you people.
Thanks again, Jim
-------------------- Jim & Chris Hetzler JC Hetz Studio 513 W 3rd St. Muscatine, IA 52761 563-263-2803 jhetzler@machlink.com www.jchetzstudio.com
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I sit next to an extremely capable web designer every day at work. I'm sure you'll find someone good though. With the web, you don't even need to meet anyone in person. As long as they can get the job done... hey.
-------------------- Glenn S. Harris
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hi! jim one trick to save space..after finished the page and saved it in jpegs, reopen it with acdsee and resave it in jpegs. it cut a lot of btes and try it with a pic..cannot really see the difference...........
-------------------- Steven Girard steven@lettragesgirard.com
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Oh and Im not big on flash and golly gee whiz site. Good graphics and content should do the trick.
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