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What kind of design files do I give a web programmer?
I am designing a site in Photoshop and am giving the files to a person who will build the site in Flash. I am designing the layout, buttons, rollover buttons, etc. What is the best file format for him? Should they be jpgs, leave them as raw PSD files, Illustrator?
I also want to do rollover buttons. I have done these in HTML (Dreamweaver) and they are all box shaped. I am wanting my rollover buttons to be part of an organic design, so they won't be square. Is that okay? Just make the shape in Photoshop?
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
PSD is the standard for exchanging website designs because it has layers and the final designers can pick and choose whichever elements they want individually. Of course, the foundation for this to work is to use one layer per element. JPG is not advisable for multiple reasons but the top one is unavailability of layers and the second one is the quality degradation because of compression.
As for the rollover buttons, include both the designs (rolled over and otherwise) in the PSD and annotate them. I personally don't like square buttons so would advise against them. Keep them slightly round like the buttons on Yahoo answers, for instance.
- Andrew SLv 71 decade ago
Your web programmer will want the images in a bitmap format. This could be JPEG but UI elements such as buttons should really be in GIF format - the compression used in JPEGs does not really make them suitable for such images.
- crsimon36Lv 71 decade ago
Jeeezz! Why don't you ask the person who will build the site in Flash? That is pretty simple.
