Photoshop web design question?

i am looking for somone who has experience of web layout design in photoshop to answer this question

when desigining a layout for a website in photoshop,if i know different pages are going to have different content on them what is the best way to approach this, is it to design seperate templates for each page keeping recurring themes such as the navigation on each page or is it better to design a mockup of the design as a whole and then using this design create all the elements seperately and insert them into there own div tags

if anyone understands please reply,best answer gets 10 points

cheers

It all depends on how you desire your website to look overall. If you're designing a portal-like Website (i.e. Yahoo, Google, etc..) then it would be best to use a CMS (Content Management System) to develop a general site theme.

If it's more genre-oriented (such as Gamespot for games or like Pandora--a site based off music) then you'd want to use photoshop to develop an overall layout for your site. Use this overall layout as a backbone template for each page on your site. Save this overall template under a separate .png file so that you could modify its colors whenever you want to change a specific page's atmosphere.

From there, elements such as the nav, advertisement panel, headers, footers, etc.. can be added to each individual page or the main template.

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but this method would be the best approach - and you'll have a WYSIWYG final product

the *best* way is to use css in all your pages in conjunction with the graphics you created from your 'template' so that all your pages have a similar style, background, header, etc etc - if you wanted to go one step further you could use simple 'server side includes' to create one main page that loads another page within a specified section of the main page - this means that menus and everything around the content stays the same and only the content changes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side...

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