Ask HN: Design tools and software. What can I buy?

Re:Ask HN: Design tools and software. What can I buy? by brador on Friday November 18, 2011 @07:12AM (#3251475)

Cool, I'll check those out! Any tips on software and hardware to roll my own? Do professional web designers use Wacom tablets or other specific hardware?

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Re:Ask HN: Design tools and software. What can I buy? by peng on Friday November 18, 2011 @09:20AM (#3251775)

I'm a professional web designer. I spend 95% of my working time typing in Vim and refreshing Chrome. =)

Wacom tablets are generally for illustrators, not web designers. Freehand drawings do not map well to the rectangular web.

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Re:Ask HN: Design tools and software. What can I buy? by brador on Friday November 18, 2011 @09:48AM (#3251865)

What do you use for images? Take your own or source somewhere?

What software do you use to lay things out correctly?

As a programmer, how do I best prepare a html page for a designer? Is putting everything in a div with a unique id enough?

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Re:Ask HN: Design tools and software. What can I buy? by peng on Friday November 18, 2011 @12:46PM (#3252588)

Images: usually client provided, or none. Stock photography is awful in general.

Layout: Content is divided into columns. Twelve colums, six colums, and three columns are the usual suspects.

Preparing HTML for a designer: Use semantic HTML. For anything that's even vaguely list-related, use <ul>. Do not put links in a div by themselves, but sort them into a structured list. Do not use <br> for paragraphs.

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Re:Ask HN: Design tools and software. What can I buy? by revorad on Friday November 18, 2011 @07:31AM (#3251518)

I don't know if anyone uses tablets. I'd say start simple :-) Also, there's a thread like this on HN every few days. So, search around a bit.

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