InDesign to Web... is it possible?
Believe it or not, but up until a week ago our company didn't have a website despite being around since the 60's!
Over the last few months I had been playing around with a really basic site, doing all the design work in InDesign as I just needed mock-ups to convince the bosses that we needed something, anything.
So after a few revisions and whatnot, we finally had something they they liked. A local company that we do a fair bit of printing for also offers web services, so it was decided to contract to them to build our website.
I packaged all the indesign files up, as per my normal routine, and shipped it over to them on DVD. Within 24 hours they had our entire site done. I asked their technical guy why it didn't take very long (their initial estimate was 3-4 days) and he basically said that I did 90% of the work by supplying them with everything they needed.
This intrigued me as to how they were able to take my indesign files and produce a entire website (about 10 pages) from it, in a short period of time.
I've got to do a re-design on my volunteer fire department's site, something I've been putting off because I wasn't sure how to approach it. BUT, if I can do all the mock ups in InDesign, and figure out how to create a website from it, i'd be laughing.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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