How do I get good detail using Frontpage?

I'm using Photoshop too, but it still looks bad

[artistjeff]

Okay I admit I'm pretty new to this. Three weeks ago, I was using templates to design pages, and have since discarded them. And, I'm getting as about as proficiant with Frontpage as a person could (it has this bad habit of freezing up, and so I have to hit the save button every couple of minutes) I started to use Photoshop 7.0 to arrange, and add detail to my fonts, but when I transfer them over to frontpage (I just drag and click them in place) they look better, but they still don't look nearly as good as they did sitting on that adobe screen (I use two monitors) They loose almost all the crispness they had, and I have tried anti-aliasing, and other photo shop techniques to keep them from looking blurry, but I am having marginal luck. Is it me or the Software? Any advise to help me with this would be great. I'm rather dunbfounded at this point -Jeff

[mClarke]

Hmmm, I didn't know that you could drag files from PhotoShop into FrontPage. I tried it with PhotoShop 6 and FrontPage 2000, and the saved graphic dragged in. I also tried with an unsaved file, and discovered that the topmost text layer did indeed go over, but it was only the top text layer. And when I viewed the HTML source, I saw that it was stored as a temp image file, and given a name of "wpeSomeNumber.gif"

I'm guessing that one of two things could have happened.
1) The file was unsaved and when dragged into FrontPage, an image got "saved", but with less colors. or less likely
2) The file went in OK, but in the dragging process, was resized and skewed somehow.

You may already know that you can insert images into FrontPage documents by clicking the little photo of the mountain in the toolbar. It will prompt you for a file name, and you can browse to whereever the graphic is.

When it's time to upload the pages, you may need to check the links to these graphics to reflect whereever you are planning to store them on your server, because FrontPage may try to insert a path to files your C drive.

P.S. If you have the inclination to try another visually-based html editor, you might want to look into Dreamweaver MX.

Hope this helps ...

[benihana]

sorry if this is patronising, but you do understand the world of difference between photoshop and frontpage, dont you?

i would try creating your titles etc in photoshop and then using the save for web feature, or better still optimising and saving them in imageready till your happy with the look, and then inserting them into frontpage using 'insert image', or whatever its called.

do these two things as a seperate processes and you should have much better results.

p.s. we are just talking about titles and things, not paragraphs?

ben